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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 does the governess get money from the baronet?
2. Who does Moll get to visit in Newgate?
3. What does Moll say is worse than being in want?
4. What happens at the Barnet Stage?
5. What does Mrs. B give to the parish officials?
Short Essay Questions
1. What event causes Moll to turn to a life of crime?
2. How does Moll's marriage to the banker come to an end?
3. What adventure does Moll have at the gaming house?
4. How does Moll eventually project her guilt onto someone else?
5. How does Moll turn her stolen goods into cash?
6. Describe how Moll and James part.
7. What assistance does she get from the landlady at the rooming house?
8. Why does Moll not make a play for the banker?
9. What passes through Moll's head as she marries the banker?
10. What happens to the child after it is born?
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 Why I Would Not Like to Live in 18th Century England. Include in your essay the odds against being born into wealth or nobility, the modern conveniences that were not even dreamed of in that time, and the injustices against women and children.
Essay Topic 2
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?
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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