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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. With whom does Molloy describe a sexual act?
(a) Edith.
(b) Mrs. Loy.
(c) A goat.
(d) Lousse.

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

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

7. How does Molloy characterize his own appearance?
(a) He says that he is invisible.
(b) He says that he is too handsome for his own good.
(c) He says that he is not a pretty sight.
(d) He says that he is normal.

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

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

10. Molloy says that he listened to Lousse for a long time—What does Molloy say was left at the end of his listening?
(a) Her voice.
(b) Her desire for him.
(c) The sound of the stars.
(d) The smell of cooking.

11. What does Molloy say morning is the time for?
(a) Hiding.
(b) Homecoming.
(c) Traveling.
(d) Hunting.

12. Who does Molloy say he thought might be one and the same person?
(a) Edith and his mother.
(b) Lousse and his mother.
(c) Edith and Lousse.
(d) The policeman and his father.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Molloy say Lousse’s parrot says?

2. What would Molloy be taking the place of, if he stayed long with Lousse?

3. Why was Molloy not free to stay in the forest?

4. What smell does Molloy say he associates with Lousse?

5. What does Molloy say the horizon was burning with?

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