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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 Molloy say is easier for him at the seashore?
2. What smell does Molloy say he associates with Lousse?
3. What does Molloy say he was afraid his mother always understood him to be saying with his knocks?
4. How does Molloy characterize the atmosphere he made his way through?
5. What does Molloy say he stole from Lousse’s house?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Molloy characterize Lousse’s physical appearance, and what did she have in common with Edith/Ruth?
2. What is Molloy’s relationship with writing?
3. What is Molloy’s system for sucking stones?
4. How does Molloy characterize his experience with the charcoal burner in the forest?
5. How long was Molloy on the road before he met Lousse, and how long did he stay with Lousse?
6. What is the one thing that Molloy says torments him?
7. How does Molloy say he and his mother refer to each other?
8. Why was Molloy taken to the police station?
9. Where did Molloy take shelter after leaving Lousse’s place?
10. How does Molloy say he chooses what to write?
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
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
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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