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

2. How many sucking stones did Molloy make a system to accommodate?
(a) 16.
(b) 1.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.

3. How does Molloy say a man inevitably travels in the forest?
(a) In a polygon.
(b) In a straight line.
(c) In a repetition of time.
(d) In a circle.

4. What does Molloy say one knock on his mother’s head meant?
(a) Yes.
(b) I don’t know.
(c) Goodbye.
(d) No.

5. How does Molloy say he met Lousse?
(a) He killed her dog with his bicycle.
(b) He asked her for food.
(c) He asked her for directions.
(d) He killed her child with his crutches.

6. Under what condition does Molloy say he might have loved the charcoal burner?
(a) If he had already known what love was.
(b) If he had been 70 years older.
(c) If the charcoal burner were 70 years younger.
(d) If he had never been beaten.

7. What does Molloy say he had to circumvent, to get to his mother?
(a) A barren plain.
(b) An ocean.
(c) A swamp.
(d) A river.

8. 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.

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

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

11. What does Molloy say two knocks on his mother’s head meant?
(a) Money.
(b) No.
(c) Yes.
(d) I don’t know.

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

13. 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.

14. Why does Molloy say he distrusted his bicycle?
(a) He thought it caused his misfortunes.
(b) He says that it was always breaking down.
(c) He says that it steered him wrong.
(d) He says that the police kept noticing it.

15. What does Molloy say is “not an easy matter” (24)?
(a) Applying the letter of the law to someone like him.
(b) Answering policemen’s questions.
(c) Finding his way in the dark.
(d) Learning his mother’s address.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Molloy say he did not slit his wrists after leaving Lousse’s?

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

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

4. How long does Molloy say elapsed between leaving home and seeing the moon at Lousse’s house?

5. What did Molloy see when the forest ended?

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