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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, pages 18-35, from the sentence that starts “The room smelt of ammonia” through the sentence that starts “My sick leg, forget which”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Molloy say his mother knew him?
(a) By sound.
(b) By smell.
(c) By taste.
(d) By touch.

2. Which way does Molloy say C was going, after he met A?
(a) Toward town.
(b) Toward the sea.
(c) Away from town.
(d) Into the forest.

3. Which way does Molloy say A was going, after he met C?
(a) Away from town.
(b) Toward the sea.
(c) Toward town.
(d) Into the forest.

4. Where does Molloy say his dwelling is?
(a) Loudest.
(b) Quietist.
(c) Furthest.
(d) Deepest down.

5. How does Molloy characterize his own appearance?
(a) He says that he is normal.
(b) He says that he is invisible.
(c) He says that he is not a pretty sight.
(d) He says that he is too handsome for his own good.

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 the policeman stopped him?

3. What does Molloy say he was afraid his mother always understood him to be saying with his knocks?

4. What is Molloy trying to do at the beginning of the novel?

5. What does Molloy say four knocks on his mother’s head meant?

(see the answer key)

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