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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 does Molloy say one knock on his mother’s head meant?
(a) Yes.
(b) Goodbye.
(c) No.
(d) I don’t know.

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

3. What does Molloy offer the reader?
(a) His confession.
(b) His beginning.
(c) His justification.
(d) His analysis.

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

5. What does Molloy say he wants to finish?
(a) Caring for himself.
(b) Walking.
(c) Caring for his mother.
(d) Dying.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Molloy say he met Lousse?

2. Why does Molloy say the policeman stopped him?

3. How does Molloy characterize human nature, in discussing C’s travels through the landscape?

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

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

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