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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Molloy trying to do at the beginning of the novel?

2. What does Molloy say three knocks on his mother’s head meant?

3. What does Molloy say is easier for him at the seashore?

4. What does Molloy say life seems to be made up of?

5. What percentage of Lousse’s speech does Molloy say he understood?

Short Essay Questions

1. What offer does Lousse make to Molloy?

2. Who are A and C, and what drama does Molloy watch them play out?

3. What is Molloy’s character like?

4. What is the one thing that Molloy says torments him?

5. How does Molloy describe his relationship with society, through his detention?

6. What is Molloy’s relationship with writing?

7. How does Molloy say he and his mother refer to each other?

8. What is the relationship between Molloy and his mother’s money?

9. Why does Molloy say that his previous attempts at suicide were unsuccessful?

10. How does Molloy characterize his relationship with his mother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What makes Molloy a pressing and relevant figure for our times? In what ways is his philosophy and literary stance no longer appropriate? Is Molloy a book for our times, or just a relic from a previous time?

Essay Topic 2

Who is the audience for Molloy? What is the ideal reader for Molloy likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?

Essay Topic 3

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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