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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. How much does Mrs. B say Moll's lying in will cost?

2. How does the banker say his wife is a whore?

3. What is Moll's initial reaction to her new life of crime?

4. What does Moll admit to the lady who comes to help her?

5. What happens when Moll's husband learns she is poor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the child after it is born?

2. Why does Moll not make a play for the banker?

3. What adventure does Moll have at the gaming house?

4. What does Moll do after the man falls into a drunken sleep?

5. How is Moll finally caught red handed?

6. What assistance does she get from the landlady at the rooming house?

7. In Newgate, who is the leader of a rebel gang brought in for trial?

8. What event causes Moll to turn to a life of crime?

9. What causes Moll to continue stealing?

10. What had Moll's new husband, James, believed about her before they were married?

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 how people influence others. Use three examples in the life of Moll Flanders--(1) what she learned from her first husband's older brother, (2) how she was influenced by the governess, and (3) what she learned from her true love, James. Express your opinion about how the approval of others may make some people make wrong decisions.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the novel as a moral lesson. As noted in the Preface, novels of Defoe's day needed to teach some sort of moral lesson. Good always triumphs over evil, and evil is always punished. Express your idea as to whether Defoe was subtly rejecting that notion with the writing of MOLL FLANDERS. Give examples from the novel to back up your opinion.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on your opinion of Defoe's literary style in presenting Moll Flanders as though she wrote the book herself. Do you think it is effective? How would it be different written in the third person?

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