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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 mistake did Moran make about Molloy’s name?
2. What does Moran say is the defining feature of Bally?
3. 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?
4. What did the man who came to Moran’s shelter ask Moran for?
5. What does Moran say he was covered by, by the time he returned home?
Short Essay Questions
1. What rule does Moran say is evidenced in his decision not to let his son bring his stamp albums with him on the trip?
2. What steps did Moran take to repair his son’s health?
3. How does Moran characterize the landscape around Bally?
4. What did Gaber tell Moran that Youdi had told him?
5. How did Martha learn that Moran and his son were going away?
6. How does Part II open?
7. How did Moran dispose of the man’s body?
8. What does Moran say is the value of finishing a job like this?
9. How did it come to pass that Moran killed the man?
10. How does Moran characterize his trip to the garden before his departure?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the difference between Molloy and Moran? How are they similar, how are they different? Are they complimentary or opposed, in the universe Beckett sets up in Molloy?
Essay Topic 2
Many of Molloy’s insights have to do with living, but they also have to do with writing, and we cannot forget that the character who opens the book is a writer, that someone comes to give him money for his pages. What does Molloy tell us about the writing process, or about Beckett’s writing process? What is writing supposed to do? What does it entail? What is the outcome of writing meant to be? How is it similar to and different from living?
Essay Topic 3
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?
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