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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. Who does Moll get to visit in Newgate?
2. What does Moll do to the shopkeeper after she is exonerated by the capture of the real shoplifter?
3. Who does the wealthy man Moll robs in a coach turn out to be?
4. What happens at the Barnet Stage?
5. What happens to Mill in the silversmith's shop?
Short Essay Questions
1. What event causes Moll to turn to a life of crime?
2. What happens to the child after it is born?
3. How does Moll eventually project her guilt onto someone else?
4. What does James tell Moll as she departs for London?
5. Where do Moll and James end up after Newgate?
6. What is Moll's concern about having the baby in the rooming house where she is staying?
7. What had Moll's new husband, James, believed about her before they were married?
8. Explain what foils Moll's plan to marry the banker when she returns to London.
9. Describe how Moll and James part.
10. What assistance does she get from the landlady at the rooming 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 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 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.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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