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

2. Where does Molloy say he sleeps?
(a) In the forest.
(b) In the alley.
(c) In a shelter he made.
(d) In his mother’s room.

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

4. What does Molloy say a man in his position must be able to relish?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Grace.
(d) Filth.

5. Who does Molloy say is responsible for him acting like a pig?
(a) Himself.
(b) His fate.
(c) His mother.
(d) His superiors.

6. What does the man who visits Molloy leave behind when he visits?
(a) Books.
(b) Money.
(c) Instructions.
(d) A bicycle.

7. What was it that make Molloy’s previous suicide attempts unsuccessful?
(a) The lack of rope.
(b) The noise.
(c) The dullness of his knives.
(d) The lack of trees.

8. Which direction does Molloy say he had to go, from the seashore, to visit his mother?
(a) Inland.
(b) To an island.
(c) Across the water.
(d) Along the shore.

9. Why does Molloy say he did not slit his wrists after leaving Lousse’s?
(a) The pain was too great.
(b) He could not find a knife.
(c) He was hungry and wanted to eat.
(d) He wanted to see his mother again.

10. Which way does Molloy say C was going, after he met A?
(a) Toward town.
(b) Toward the sea.
(c) Away from town.
(d) Into the forest.

11. What does Molloy say he lost in this time near the shore?
(a) His hearing.
(b) His toes.
(c) His books.
(d) His vision.

12. 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.

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

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

15. What does Molloy say it would be madness not to do?
(a) See his mother.
(b) Walk to the next town.
(c) Say goodbye.
(d) Leave the house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Molloy say his dwelling is?

2. What does Molloy say he had to circumvent, to get to his mother?

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

4. How long does Molloy say he stayed with Lousse?

5. Which direction did Molloy set off in, from the alley?

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