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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Writing his report will help Moran survive an anguish related to what?
(a) Unfinished business.
(b) His conscience.
(c) Youdi’s disappointment.
(d) Vagrancy and freedom.

2. What order did Moran give his son in German?
(a) You shall beg for mercy.
(b) You shall suffer in silence.
(c) You shall do without.
(d) You shall endure.

3. What does Moran say he deliberately turn his attention to instead?
(a) The mystery of death.
(b) Other unknowns.
(c) The question of Molloy’s mother.
(d) Anxiety about where to get food.

4. What does Moran say he was doing while Gaber told him what Youdi said about life?
(a) Looking for food.
(b) Uprooting grasses.
(c) Trying to slit his wrists.
(d) Looking at his face in a stream.

5. Who did Moran try to keep in the dark about his departure?
(a) Gaber.
(b) Martha.
(c) Youdi.
(d) His son.

6. What answer did Moran’s knee make when he listened to it?
(a) Run a bit.
(b) Go home.
(c) No change.
(d) Lay down.

7. What did Gaber ask Moran for after he delivered his message?
(a) Directions.
(b) Money.
(c) Bread.
(d) Beer.

8. What mistake did Moran make about Molloy’s name?
(a) He called him Molly.
(b) He called him Mollose.
(c) He called him Moll.
(d) He called him Mallory.

9. How does Moran say he dreads death?
(a) As a humiliation.
(b) As an insult.
(c) As a regeneration.
(d) As an end.

10. What did Moran use for a cane?
(a) His umbrella.
(b) A stick he cut in the woods.
(c) A metal rod he found.
(d) Molloy’s crutches.

11. What did Gaber tell Moran that Youdi had said life consisted of?
(a) Hunting and being hunted.
(b) Injustice and grief.
(c) Beauty and joy.
(d) Misery and disappointment.

12. Which of Moran’s clothes does he say he discarded?
(a) His shirts.
(b) His tie.
(c) His boots.
(d) His drawers.

13. What does Moran say he was drowning in?
(a) The flow of judgments.
(b) The currents of sensations.
(c) The spray of phenomena.
(d) The tide of criticisms.

14. What did Moran’s son say hurt him?
(a) His feet.
(b) His head.
(c) His tooth.
(d) His knee.

15. What did Moran send his son to buy in the town of Hole?
(a) Fire-making materials.
(b) Food.
(c) A bicycle.
(d) A raincoat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Moran given his son a scout knife for?

2. What did Moran deliberately turn his attention away from?

3. How does Moran say Molloy moved?

4. How many paces was Moran able to make between stops, after he started to use a cane?

5. What does Moran hear when he starts his report?

(see the answer keys)

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