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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Moran ask Father Ambrose for?
(a) Guidance about Molloy.
(b) Money.
(c) Instructions about his son.
(d) A private communion.

2. How does Moran characterize his son’s progress?
(a) Reluctant.
(b) Shambling.
(c) Mechanical.
(d) Spirited.

3. How much money did Moran’s son leave him with, when he left?
(a) 10 shillings.
(b) Two pounds ten.
(c) 15 shillings.
(d) Four pounds ten.

4. What did Moran rub iodex on, for pain relief?
(a) His back.
(b) His knee.
(c) His neck.
(d) His shoulder.

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

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

7. What kind of death did Moran think Molloy would have?
(a) Natural.
(b) Self-inflicted.
(c) Violent.
(d) Sudden.

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

9. Moran says that he proceeds in making his report out of fear: why does he say he fears?
(a) For Molloy’s safety.
(b) Out of pragmatism.
(c) Out of force of habit.
(d) For Youdi’s punishments.

10. 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.

11. What quality does Moran say defined the features of the man who came to him on the second day?
(a) Revulsion.
(b) Dissatisfaction.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Harmony.

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

13. How does Moran characterize himself?
(a) He who tells what he has found.
(b) He who explains what he has found.
(c) He who finds.
(d) He who analyzes the process of finding.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Moran say Molloy would see himself after Moran arrived?

2. What did Moran take with him instead of his heavy coat?

3. When did Gaber tell Moran he would be leaving?

4. How does Moran characterize the job Gaber wanted him to do?

5. What does Moran say is the defining feature of Bally?

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