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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. Who does Moran think will be blamed for the murder?
2. What does Moran hear when he starts his report?
3. Moran gave his son five pounds, but when his son counted, how much money did he have?
4. What did Moran offer the man who came to his shelter on the first day of his son’s absence?
5. When the man comes to Moran’s shelter on the second day, he asks Moran if he has seen someone: who did he ask about?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gaber tell Moran when he meets him the second time?
2. How does Moran resolve the question of whether Molloy is really Molloy’s name?
3. What does Moran describe about his bees?
4. How did Moran dispose of the man’s body?
5. How does Moran’s report end, at the end of Part II?
6. How does Moran characterize the process of dying?
7. How does Moran characterize the system by which messengers carried their messages to agents?
8. What is Moran’s pleasure principle, and how did it affect his decisions around his departure?
9. Who was the first person who came to Moran’s shelter?
10. How did it come to pass that Moran killed the man?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When is Molloy most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
Essay Topic 2
What is the role of women in Molloy, or of parents? How do Molloy and Moran treat the people around them, and what do they expect of women? Are they ‘normal’ men who expect ‘normal’ things of women, or are they ambiguous or asexual? What role does physical or emotional love play in Molloy, whether it is between men or women?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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