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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 confess to the banker?

2. What is in the letter Moll receives after the baby is born?

3. What does Moll do to the shopkeeper after she is exonerated by the capture of the real shoplifter?

4. What is the governess' new business?

5. Why does Moll put off the banker who now has a divorce?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Moll meet the next man she becomes involved with when she is forty-two-years old?

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

3. Why does Moll stop stealing for a while?

4. What kind of reputation does Moll earn from the underground, criminal community?

5. How does Moll eventually project her guilt onto someone else?

6. Explain what foils Moll's plan to marry the banker when she returns to London.

7. Why is Moll so popular up north?

8. What passes through Moll's head as she marries the banker?

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

10. What does James tell Moll as she departs for London?

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 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 2

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on child labor. Start with the way it was in Moll's day and note how changes have been made in Europe and America. Discuss the bad effects on exploited children and places in the world where child labor is still a problem.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the subject of penitence. Point out what real penitence is. Discuss how Moll's penitence looks less like sorrow for her sins and more like sorrow that she was caught. Contrast her with the governess who seems to be genuinely sorry for her past life at the end of the novel.

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