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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, pages 35, from the sentence that starts, “I had so to speak only one leg…” through page 54, the sentence that starts “Yes, that struck me as less strange…”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Molloy say the policeman stopped him?
(a) For the way he was resting on his bicycle.
(b) For speeding on his bicycle.
(c) For trespassing.
(d) For loitering.

2. What does Molloy say Lousse’s parrot says?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Expletives.
(c) Prayers.
(d) Greetings.

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. How does Molloy characterize the internal voices that tell him to stay or to go?
(a) Two fools.
(b) A mother and a father.
(c) An angel and a devil.
(d) Two devils.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Molloy characterize the son he might have had, who would come to visit him?

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

3. What does Molloy say kept him from cutting his testicles off?

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

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

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