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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 she say he is probably most worried about now?

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

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

4. What happens at the Barnet Stage?

5. What do Moll and her Lancashire husband discover about each other?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe how Moll and James part.

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

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

5. What adventure does Moll have at the gaming house?

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

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

8. How does Moll turn her stolen goods into cash?

9. Why does Moll stop stealing for a while?

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 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 2

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 3

Write an essay of at least two typewritten, double spaced pages on how people influence others. Use three examples in the life of Moll Flanders--(1) what she learned from her first husband's older brother, (2) how she was influenced by the governess, and (3) what she learned from her true love, James. Express your opinion about how the approval of others may make some people make wrong decisions.

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