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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Molloy see when the forest ended?
(a) A river.
(b) An ocean.
(c) A town.
(d) A plain.

2. Who does Molloy say he thought might be one and the same person?
(a) Lousse and his mother.
(b) Edith and Lousse.
(c) The policeman and his father.
(d) Edith and his mother.

3. What does Molloy say bothered him about Edith?
(a) The pain she suffered while dying.
(b) His powerlessness to help her.
(c) The impatience he felt for her death.
(d) The indifference with which he learned of her death.

4. What problems does Molloy say had not yet started with his health?
(a) The loss of his vision.
(b) The loss of his memory.
(c) The loss of his toes.
(d) The loss of his hearing.

5. With whom does Molloy describe a sexual act?
(a) Lousse.
(b) A goat.
(c) Mrs. Loy.
(d) Edith.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Molloy characterize the son he might have had, who would come to visit him?

2. Why does Molloy say he did not slit his wrists after leaving Lousse’s?

3. What does Molloy say he lost in this time near the shore?

4. What does Molloy say a man in his position must be able to relish?

5. Which way does Molloy say C was going, after he met A?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the difference between the Molloy who is writing and the Molloy who was living through the experiences Molloy writes?

2. Who are A and C, and what drama does Molloy watch them play out?

3. How does Molloy’s disability affect him?

4. How does Molloy characterize his experience with the charcoal burner in the forest?

5. What is it that Molloy finds noxious about his mother?

6. What offer does Lousse make to Molloy?

7. What does Molloy say are the principles he lives by?

8. How does Molloy say he chooses what to write?

9. How does Molloy characterize Lousse’s physical appearance, and what did she have in common with Edith/Ruth?

10. What is Molloy’s relationship with death like?

(see the answer keys)

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