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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 his mother smelled like?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Travel.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Antiquity.

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

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 killed.
(d) Being sent home.

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

5. How does Molloy characterize the road where A and C meet?
(a) Urban.
(b) Bare.
(c) Overlooking the sea.
(d) Lush.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Molloy say his identity was wrapped in?

2. What does Molloy say three knocks on his mother’s head meant?

3. How does Molloy say he met Lousse?

4. What does Molloy say it would be madness not to do?

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

(see the answer key)

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