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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 his instructions to his son might not withstand?
2. What mistake did Moran make about Molloy’s name?
3. What does Moran say never crossed his mind?
4. What does Moran say he deliberately turn his attention to instead?
5. What does Moran say is his position about God?
Short Essay Questions
1. What arraignments did Moran make with Father Ambrose after Gaber’s visit?
2. Who was the first person who came to Moran’s shelter?
3. Under what conditions do Moran and his son part for the first time?
4. How does Moran’s report end, at the end of Part II?
5. How does Moran characterize the landscape around Bally?
6. How does Moran characterize the process of dying?
7. What does Moran say is the value of finishing a job like this?
8. What was Moran’s reaction when he received the orders from Gaber?
9. How does Moran characterize his relationship with hope, after his son left?
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 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 2
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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