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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 banker's house like?

2. What is Moll's first theft?

3. What does Moll say about her delivery?

4. What does Moll learn about her banker?

5. What is the governess turned pawnbroker actually doing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Moll stop stealing for a while?

3. What passes through Moll's head as she marries the banker?

4. How does Moll eventually project her guilt onto someone else?

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

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

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

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

9. Describe how Moll and James part.

10. What kind of reputation does Moll earn from the underground, criminal community?

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 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 3

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.

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