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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. What is Molloy trying to do at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Justify his actions.
(b) Beg forgiveness.
(c) Find himself.
(d) Orient himself.

2. What does Molloy say he was reduced to, by the policeman’s questions?
(a) Tediousness.
(b) Confabulation.
(c) Panic.
(d) Contentiousness.

3. What does Molloy say he was afraid of, that caused him to answer the police’s questions blindly?
(a) Being beaten.
(b) Being kept from his mother.
(c) Being sent home.
(d) Being killed.

4. What does Molloy say his mother smelled like?
(a) Antiquity.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Travel.

5. What does Molloy say he felt called by as he watched C?
(a) His death.
(b) The fields and the sea.
(c) The sky and mountains.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Molloy say his dwelling is?

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

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

5. What does Molloy say is “not an easy matter” (24)?

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