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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 mistake did Moran make about Molloy’s name?

2. What does Moran say his decision to leave by autocycle reveals was present in his decision-making process?

3. What does Moran say caused him to laugh, in time, after his son left?

4. Which of Moran’s clothes does he say he discarded?

5. What did Martha serve Moran and his son before they left?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Martha learn that Moran and his son were going away?

2. What justification does Moran offer for why he accepted the job from Gaber?

3. What does Gaber tell Moran when he meets him the second time?

4. What commentary does Moran make about his narration of their journey?

5. Who was the first person who came to Moran’s shelter?

6. What is the naming convention that Moran describes for the region around Bally?

7. What does Moran describe about his bees?

8. What was Moran’s reaction when he received the orders from Gaber?

9. How does Moran characterize the process of dying?

10. How did it come to pass that Moran killed the man?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Molloy can be described as a surrealist or an existentialist novel. How well do these descriptions fit the book? Where do these terms fit it well? Where is the fit imprecise? In your experience, what are the books Molloy most resembles?

Essay Topic 2

What is the difference between Molloy and Moran? How are they similar, how are they different? Are they complimentary or opposed, in the universe Beckett sets up in Molloy?

Essay Topic 3

Who is the audience for Molloy? What is the ideal reader for Molloy likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

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