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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 did Moran deliberately turn his attention away from?

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

3. As Moran writes his report, in the present moment, what does he say he filled his days with?

4. What does Moran say his decision to leave by autocycle reveals was present in his decision-making process?

5. How does Moran say the murder affect his state of mind?

Short Essay Questions

1. What steps did Moran take to repair his son’s health?

2. How does Moran characterize the landscape around Bally?

3. How does Moran characterize the man who hailed him on the second night?

4. How does Moran characterize his trip to the garden before his departure?

5. How does Part II open?

6. What does Moran say are topics that never crossed his mind?

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

8. How does Moran’s report end, at the end of Part II?

9. How does Moran characterize the process of dying?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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