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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 does Moran say he notices while he is walking?

2. Moran gave his son five pounds, but when his son counted, how much money did he have?

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

4. What did Moran use for a cane?

5. What is it that makes Moran’s mind swoon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Moran’s pleasure principle, and how did it affect his decisions around his departure?

2. What does Gaber tell Moran when he meets him the second time?

3. What does Moran describe about his bees?

4. How does Part II open?

5. What did Gaber tell Moran that Youdi had told him?

6. What commentary does Moran make about his narration of their journey?

7. What was Moran’s reaction when he received the orders from Gaber?

8. How does Moran characterize the process of dying?

9. What justification does Moran offer for why he accepted the job from Gaber?

10. How did Moran dispose of the man’s body?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an evaluative review of Molloy. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful?What are its uses? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 2

Molloy is a book in which Beckett has created a world for his character to live in, but it is a world that only sometimes resembles our world of experiences and observations. What are the advantages and disadvantages of creating a whole world for a character, with rules that apply only to that world, and are not even always explained? Is this an ultimately fruitful enterprise for Beckett, or does the artificiality of the enterprise work against him? Take a position on one side or the other.

Essay Topic 3

How does the narrator of Molloy know things, and what complicates the act or the sensation of knowing? What does it mean to him, to know or not know? What kind of world does he live in, where knowing is subject to so many uncertainties?

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