Moll Flanders Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 124 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Moll Flanders Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 124 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 the assumption left up to the reader in the Preface?

2. What does Moll finally find?

3. How does Moll compare herself to the gentleman at Bath?

4. How does Moll say she and the older brother behaved in the house of an acquaintance when they were alone?

5. What does Moll, called Mrs. Betty, do better than the daughters of the new family?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Moll's life like at first in Virginia?

2. What are the stories her mother-in-law tells that eventually reveal she was herself transported from Newgate prison to America?

3. What apology does the editor make about the content of the book?

4. Listening to her mother-in-law, what does Moll suddenly realize?

5. How does the gentleman react when he learns of Moll's pregnancy?

6. What does Moll learn about the Men who visit Bath during the summer season?

7. What is the complication that arises in the new family where Moll lives?

8. What happens when Moll is only 14-years-old?

9. Who takes Moll in after the death of the Nurse?

10. What does Moll know about her mother?

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 child labor. Start with the way it was in Moll's day and note how changes have been made in Europe and America. Discuss the bad effects on exploited children and places in the world where child labor is still a problem.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages detailing three major types of transportation in the novel--horseback, the carriage, and boats and ships. Express your opinion on how such limited means of transportation affected 18th century life. Point out the hardships involved with each type of transportation. Discuss how means of transportation began to evolve in the 19th century because of a need for better ways of getting around.

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