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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Molloy say was missing when he woke up at Lousse’s house after burying the dog?
(a) His toes.
(b) His hair.
(c) His beard.
(d) His money.

2. How does Molloy characterize the son he might have had, who would come to visit him?
(a) Queer.
(b) Violent.
(c) Happy.
(d) Frightening.

3. What does Molloy say bothered him about Edith?
(a) His powerlessness to help her.
(b) The impatience he felt for her death.
(c) The indifference with which he learned of her death.
(d) The pain she suffered while dying.

4. Why was Molloy not free to stay in the forest?
(a) He needed his papers at home.
(b) He could not see far enough there.
(c) He would be going against an imperative.
(d) He could not find shelter there.

5. How does Molloy characterize Edith’s preference in clothing?
(a) Minimalist dresses.
(b) Not to wear clothes.
(c) Simple folk clothing.
(d) Voluminous shifts.

6. What did Molloy hit the charcoal burner with?
(a) A rock.
(b) A club.
(c) His fist.
(d) His crutch.

7. What did Molloy see when the forest ended?
(a) An ocean.
(b) A town.
(c) A river.
(d) A plain.

8. What does Molloy say C was looking around for?
(a) His mother.
(b) A.
(c) Molloy.
(d) Landmarks.

9. How does Molloy say his hat is attached to his clothing?
(a) With a rubber band.
(b) With lace.
(c) With thread.
(d) With a leather tie.

10. How does Molloy characterize his health in the time he was with Lousse?
(a) It did not decline.
(b) It got worse.
(c) Old problems resolved but new ones began.
(d) It got better.

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

12. How does Molloy characterize human nature, in discussing C’s travels through the landscape?
(a) At home everywhere.
(b) Alien.
(c) Unstable, fugitive.
(d) Preternatural.

13. Where does Molloy tell the police he is going?
(a) To the forest.
(b) To the sea.
(c) To his mother.
(d) Home.

14. What does Molloy say is easier for him at the seashore?
(a) Finding things.
(b) Naming things.
(c) Losing things.
(d) Remembering things.

15. Why does Molloy say he will never finish his list of weak points?
(a) They are always multiplying.
(b) They keep changing.
(c) It will finish him.
(d) He cannot get his head around them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problems does Molloy say had not yet started with his health?

2. Molloy says that he listened to Lousse for a long time—What does Molloy say was left at the end of his listening?

3. Which direction does Molloy say he had to go, from the seashore, to visit his mother?

4. What does Molloy say one knock on his mother’s head meant?

5. What does Molloy say he felt called by as he watched C?

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