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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 answer did Moran’s knee make when he listened to it?
2. How much money did Moran’s son leave him with, when he left?
3. What did Moran tell his son to get, when Gaber arrived with his message?
4. How has Moran proved his accomplishments in the past?
5. What does Moran say is the defining feature of Bally?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Moran’s pleasure principle, and how did it affect his decisions around his departure?
2. Under what conditions do Moran and his son part for the first time?
3. Who was the first person who came to Moran’s shelter?
4. What is the naming convention that Moran describes for the region around Bally?
5. How does Moran characterize his trip to the garden before his departure?
6. What does Moran say is the value of finishing a job like this?
7. How does Moran’s report end, at the end of Part II?
8. What is the first cause of tension between Moran and his son, after they leave?
9. How did it come to pass that Moran killed the man?
10. What does Moran say are topics that never crossed his mind?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the difference between Molloy and Moran? How are they similar, how are they different? Are they complimentary or opposed, in the universe Beckett sets up in Molloy?
Essay Topic 2
Identify the most important plot points in Molloy. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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