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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 drug did Moran take while his son was gone?

2. How does Moran say Molloy moved?

3. How does Moran characterize his son’s progress?

4. Why does Moran say he had a hard time deciding whether to leave on his autocycle?

5. What does Moran hear when he starts his report?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Martha learn that Moran and his son were going away?

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

6. How does Moran characterize the landscape around Bally?

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

8. What does Gaber tell Moran when he meets him the second time?

9. What does Moran say is the value of finishing a job like this?

10. What commentary does Moran make about his narration of their journey?

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

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

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?

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