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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 is his position about God?

2. What does Moran say he notices while he is walking?

3. Where was Moran when he got the orders about Molloy?

4. How has Moran proved his accomplishments in the past?

5. What drug did Moran take while his son was gone?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Moran characterize the landscape around Bally?

2. Under what conditions do Moran and his son part for the first time?

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

4. What rule does Moran say is evidenced in his decision not to let his son bring his stamp albums with him on the trip?

5. What does Moran describe about his bees?

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

7. How did it come to pass that Moran killed the man?

8. How does Moran characterize his relationship with hope, after his son left?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate the ending of Molloy. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?

Essay Topic 2

Molloy can be described as a surrealist or an existentialist novel. How well do these descriptions fit the book? Where do these terms fit it well? Where is the fit imprecise? In your experience, what are the books Molloy most resembles?

Essay Topic 3

What do we know about the source of Molloy’s malaise and his cultural position, and what can we extrapolate about his mindset, and any traumas he might have been formed by? What does Molloy tell us about the psychological effects of damage and trauma? What does it mean to be healthy in Molloy’s world? Is it possible?

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