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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Molloy say four knocks on his mother’s head meant?
(a) Money.
(b) Goodbye.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.

3. Who buried the dog after Molloy followed Lousse home?
(a) Molloy .
(b) A gardener.
(c) C.
(d) Lousse.

4. What does Molloy say his mother smelled like?
(a) Travel.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Antiquity.
(d) Ignorance.

5. How does Molloy say his mother knew him?
(a) By sound.
(b) By taste.
(c) By smell.
(d) By touch.

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

7. What is Molloy trying to do at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Beg forgiveness.
(b) Justify his actions.
(c) Find himself.
(d) Orient himself.

8. Why does Molloy say that he ought to have been buried alive?
(a) Because of the poverty of his life.
(b) Because of the smell from his leaking bladder.
(c) Because of the sacrilege of his thoughts.
(d) Because of his relationship with his mother.

9. What does Molloy say he heard the voice of in his room at Lousse’s house?
(a) A dying dog.
(b) A collapsing world.
(c) His mother.
(d) An angry parrot.

10. What problems does Molloy say had not yet started with his health?
(a) The loss of his memory.
(b) The loss of his toes.
(c) The loss of his vision.
(d) The loss of his hearing.

11. What does Molloy say he was afraid his mother always understood him to be saying with his knocks?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Money.
(d) Goodbye.

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

13. What does Molloy say he has in place of principles?
(a) What he will do.
(b) What he knows, what he can say.
(c) What he has, what he is.
(d) What he has done, who he is.

14. What happened to Molloy’s good leg at the seashores?
(a) It started to shorten.
(b) It started to burn.
(c) It started to go numb.
(d) It started to strengthen.

15. Where does Molloy say he met Edith?
(a) In a restaurant.
(b) At a crossroads.
(c) In a rubbish dump.
(d) In a garden.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where does Molloy say he sleeps?

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

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

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