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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 fear about her current landlady who brings Mrs. B?

2. What is the governess' new business?

3. What happens to a woman caught with goods Moll had stolen?

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

5. How is Moll swept off her feet by an Irishman?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Moll's marriage to the banker come to an end?

2. How is the governess able to set Moll up with the baronet after she robbed him in the carriage?

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

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

5. How does Moll escape capture when a former partner in crime gets caught by the police?

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

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

8. How is Moll finally caught red handed?

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

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 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.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages the disparity between the rich and the poor in 18th century England and the colonies. Discuss to what extent that disparity is directly related to feudalism and how it affected the history of the British colonies in America.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on how the tastes of a majority of society at any given time affect the way writers tell their tales. Begin with the profuse apology of Defoe in the Preface that the story contains lewd behavior that has been edited and his insistence that the story is presented for its moral lesson. Give your opinion as to whether Defoe is writing tongue in cheek to satisfy the criticism he believes the novel will incur. Give examples as to how such circumspection has changed over the centuries.

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