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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Moran hear when he starts his report?
(a) A distant gong.
(b) A gate slamming shut.
(c) An eagle-owl.
(d) A corncrake.

2. What did the man who came to Moran’s shelter ask Moran for?
(a) Water.
(b) Directions.
(c) Money.
(d) Bread.

3. What did Moran tell Gaber about his instructions?
(a) He said that he was not interested.
(b) He said that he could not perform this job.
(c) He said that Gaber could not make him do this job.
(d) He said that he already had another job.

4. What did Moran deliberately turn his attention away from?
(a) The question of his mother.
(b) The question of his knee.
(c) The question of his future.
(d) The question of Molloy.

5. What does Moran say Father Ambrose was lacking, when he visited him?
(a) Insight.
(b) Restraint.
(c) Scruples.
(d) Nobility.

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

7. How does Moran say Molloy would see himself after Moran arrived?
(a) As relieved.
(b) As finished.
(c) As damned.
(d) As saved.

8. When did Gaber tell Moran he would be leaving?
(a) That day.
(b) A month from that day.
(c) Tomorrow.
(d) Within a week.

9. What was Moran’s reaction when he found that his son had left him without much money?
(a) He was furious.
(b) He was glad.
(c) He was delighted,
(d) He was disappointed.

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

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

12. Why does Moran say he was doing what he was doing with regard to Molloy?
(a) For Youdi.
(b) For his own sake.
(c) For an anonymous cause.
(d) For Molloy’s sake.

13. What did Moran’s son say hurt him when he came downstairs for dinner at nine o’clock?
(a) His knee.
(b) His eyes.
(c) His head.
(d) His stomach.

14. Where was Moran when he got the orders about Molloy?
(a) His kitchen.
(b) His beach.
(c) His garden.
(d) In town.

15. What does Moran say his instructions to his son might not withstand?
(a) The test of time.
(b) The conditions on the road.
(c) Second thoughts.
(d) The exigencies of fate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Moran’s clothes does he say he discarded?

2. What answer did Moran’s knee make when he listened to it?

3. How long did Moran remain in the place where his son abandoned him?

4. What does Moran say he was covered by, by the time he returned home?

5. Who does Moran say the man resembled, who came to him on the second day?

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