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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Moll tell her suitor that he does not apparently believe?

2. What does Moll, called Mrs. Betty, do better than the daughters of the new family?

3. How is the weather during Moll's trip back to England from Virginia?

4. What does the narrator hope the reader will be more pleased with?

5. Knowing she cannot be the gentleman's wife, what does Moll do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Listening to her mother-in-law, what does Moll suddenly realize?

2. What solution do Moll and her husband-brother come up with to resolve the situation?

3. What happens when Moll is only 14-years-old?

4. What does Moll know about her mother?

5. To Moll's chagrin, what does the older brother insist that she do?

6. What happens to Moll after her husband dies?

7. After some repentance for their sleeping together, what do Moll and the gentleman do?

8. How does the gentleman react when he learns of Moll's pregnancy?

9. As the story opens, why does the writer not reveal her real name?

10. What is Moll's life like at first in Virginia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the stages of going deeper and deeper into a life of crime. Use the example of how Moll began by lying, then graduated into marrying under false pretenses, then became a whore, and finally became a professional thief. Compare that descent into criminality to an addiction to drugs and alcohol.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages comparing MOLL FLANDERS to the novel, TOM JONES by Henry fielding. There is no need to read the entire novel. Simply point out similarities in characters, behaviors, use of language, point of view of the authors, and attempts to portray the stories as real histories.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the use of irony in MOLL FLANDERS. Use the example of Moll and James each thinking the other was rich before they married and finding out that Moll really was a woman of fortune years later when they came to America. Express your opinion about how such ironic twists in a plot tend to make a story more interesting. Comment on whether you think irony happens in real life and give at least one example.

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