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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Molloy say he was afraid his mother always understood him to be saying with his knocks?
(a) Money.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Goodbye.

3. How does Molloy characterize Lousse?
(a) A woman of delicate graces.
(b) A woman of bountiful curves.
(c) A woman of extraordinary flatness.
(d) A woman of masculine musculature.

4. Molloy says that he listened to Lousse for a long time—What does Molloy say was left at the end of his listening?
(a) Her desire for him.
(b) The sound of the stars.
(c) The smell of cooking.
(d) Her voice.

5. How does Molloy characterize the atmosphere he made his way through?
(a) A blue gloom.
(b) A hostile, rotting smell.
(c) An impenetrable darkness.
(d) A mean redness.

6. What does Molloy say three knocks on his mother’s head meant?
(a) Yes.
(b) No.
(c) Money.
(d) I don’t know.

7. How does Molloy say a man inevitably travels in the forest?
(a) In a circle.
(b) In a straight line.
(c) In a repetition of time.
(d) In a polygon.

8. What did Molloy hit the charcoal burner with?
(a) His crutch.
(b) His fist.
(c) A club.
(d) A rock.

9. When Molloy says that “this is life,” what was he referring to?
(a) Being taken care of by Lousse.
(b) Traveling to his mother.
(c) Making love with Edith.
(d) Picking through trash.

10. What smell does Molloy say he associates with Lousse?
(a) Sea air.
(b) Lilacs.
(c) Peonies.
(d) Lavender.

11. What does Molloy say was missing from his clothes when he got them back?
(a) His traveling papers.
(b) Money.
(c) His sucking stone.
(d) His hat.

12. How does Molloy say he met Lousse?
(a) He killed her child with his crutches.
(b) He asked her for food.
(c) He asked her for directions.
(d) He killed her dog with his bicycle.

13. Why does Molloy say he did not slit his wrists after leaving Lousse’s?
(a) He was hungry and wanted to eat.
(b) The pain was too great.
(c) He wanted to see his mother again.
(d) He could not find a knife.

14. What does Molloy say Edith would give him?
(a) Books.
(b) Food.
(c) Pen and ink.
(d) Money.

15. What does Molloy say two knocks on his mother’s head meant?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) I don’t know.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Molloy asked for his clothes, what did the valet tell him at first?

2. What was it that make Molloy’s previous suicide attempts unsuccessful?

3. What did Lousse offer Molloy?

4. How does Molloy characterize the internal voices that tell him to stay or to go?

5. What does Molloy say he had to circumvent, to get to his mother?

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