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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 happens to the governess to reduce her fortune?
2. What reception does Moll get from the inmates at Newgate?
3. How is Moll swept off her feet by an Irishman?
4. What is the location when Moll is finally caught red handed?
5. What does Moll say allowed the devil to push her into crime?
Short Essay Questions
1. What had Moll's new husband, James, believed about her before they were married?
2. Explain what foils Moll's plan to marry the banker when she returns to London.
3. How does Moll escape capture when a former partner in crime gets caught by the police?
4. What is Moll's concern about having the baby in the rooming house where she is staying?
5. In Newgate, who is the leader of a rebel gang brought in for trial?
6. How does Moll meet the next man she becomes involved with when she is forty-two-years old?
7. Why is Moll so popular up north?
8. What does James tell Moll as she departs for London?
9. How does Moll eventually project her guilt onto someone else?
10. What adventure does Moll have at the gaming house?
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 literary language of the 18th century. Use examples in the novel to demonstrate the formality of written language and vocabulary that is not used in the same way today. State you opinion about the degree of difficulty in understanding the story that language presents in MOLL FLANDERS.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the value of goods that Moll stole as opposed to their value today. Many of Moll's thefts involved fabrics such as silk. Another thing was plate (items made of silver). Explain what that tells about the value of such items in the 18th century. Discuss how these are not the things usually taken in robberies today.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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