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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 is Moll's initial reaction to her new life of crime?

2. When a woman friend of Moll's wants her to meet her brother, what does the man want?

3. What happens to Moll in her widow's dress outside a shop?

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

5. How long is Moll married to the banker before he dies?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the governess try to prepare Moll for hanging?

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

3. In Newgate, who is the leader of a rebel gang brought in for trial?

4. What causes Moll to continue stealing?

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

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

7. What event causes Moll to turn to a life of crime?

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

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

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

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 the position of women in 18th century England and in the colonies. Define the limitations placed on women, their responsibility regarding having children, their lack of rights when a marriage or relationship breaks up, the kind of labor they are limited to doing and the pay scale they are offered.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on the use of irony in MOLL FLANDERS. Use the example of Moll and James each thinking the other was rich before they married and finding out that Moll really was a woman of fortune years later when they came to America. Express your opinion about how such ironic twists in a plot tend to make a story more interesting. Comment on whether you think irony happens in real life and give at least one example.

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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