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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, pages 18-35, from the sentence that starts “The room smelt of ammonia” through the sentence that starts “My sick leg, forget which”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Molloy say C was looking around for?
(a) His mother.
(b) Landmarks.
(c) A.
(d) Molloy.

2. What does Molloy offer the reader?
(a) His analysis.
(b) His confession.
(c) His justification.
(d) His beginning.

3. What does the man who visits Molloy take away when he visits?
(a) Pages.
(b) Money.
(c) Laundry.
(d) Instructions.

4. What does Molloy say his identity was wrapped in?
(a) His sensations.
(b) His family name.
(c) A namelessness.
(d) His writing.

5. Where does Molloy say he sleeps?
(a) In a shelter he made.
(b) In his mother’s room.
(c) In the forest.
(d) In the alley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Molloy say he was reduced to, by the policeman’s questions?

2. How does Molloy characterize the son he might have had, who would come to visit him?

3. What does the man who visits Molloy leave behind when he visits?

4. Molloy calls his mother a “uniparous whore” (19) — What does uniparous mean?

5. What is Molloy trying to do at the beginning of the novel?

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