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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did the charcoal burner want to share with Molloy?
(a) His mother.
(b) His food.
(c) His insights.
(d) His hut.
2. What would Molloy be taking the place of, if he stayed long with Lousse?
(a) A child.
(b) A husband.
(c) A lover.
(d) A dog.
3. Who buried the dog after Molloy followed Lousse home?
(a) Molloy .
(b) C.
(c) A gardener.
(d) Lousse.
4. What does Molloy say he felt called by as he watched C?
(a) His death.
(b) The sky and mountains.
(c) His mother.
(d) The fields and the sea.
5. 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) They keep changing.
(d) It will finish him.
6. What percentage of Lousse’s speech does Molloy say he understood?
(a) 25%.
(b) 100%.
(c) 0%.
(d) 1%.
7. What does Molloy say bothered him about Edith?
(a) The impatience he felt for her death.
(b) His powerlessness to help her.
(c) The indifference with which he learned of her death.
(d) The pain she suffered while dying.
8. What does Molloy say C was looking around for?
(a) Landmarks.
(b) His mother.
(c) Molloy.
(d) A.
9. What is Molloy trying to do at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Orient himself.
(b) Justify his actions.
(c) Beg forgiveness.
(d) Find himself.
10. 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 his relationship with his mother.
(d) Because of the sacrilege of his thoughts.
11. Why does Molloy say the policeman stopped him?
(a) For trespassing.
(b) For the way he was resting on his bicycle.
(c) For speeding on his bicycle.
(d) For loitering.
12. How does Molloy characterize the atmosphere he made his way through?
(a) An impenetrable darkness.
(b) A blue gloom.
(c) A hostile, rotting smell.
(d) A mean redness.
13. What does Molloy say he was afraid his mother always understood him to be saying with his knocks?
(a) Goodbye.
(b) Money.
(c) Yes.
(d) No.
14. What does Molloy say the horizon was burning with?
(a) Sunset.
(b) Forest fires.
(c) Nuclear fire.
(d) Phosphorus.
15. How does Molloy characterize Lousse?
(a) A woman of masculine musculature.
(b) A woman of extraordinary flatness.
(c) A woman of bountiful curves.
(d) A woman of delicate graces.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Molloy say he met Edith?
2. What does Molloy say Lousse’s parrot says?
3. How many sucking stones did Molloy make a system to accommodate?
4. Molloy calls his mother a “uniparous whore” (19) — What does uniparous mean?
5. What did Molloy see when the forest ended?
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