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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 Moran say is the defining feature of Bally?

2. What is the relationship between the last lines of Moran’s story and the story’s opening lines?

3. What did Moran put in his son’s milk?

4. Where does Moran say he makes his home?

5. What did Martha serve Moran and his son before they left?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Moran’s pleasure principle, and how did it affect his decisions around his departure?

4. How does Moran characterize the landscape around Bally?

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

6. What steps did Moran take to repair his son’s health?

7. How does Moran characterize the process of dying?

8. What justification does Moran offer for why he accepted the job from Gaber?

9. How does Moran characterize the scene that led up to his departure with his son?

10. How does Moran’s report end, at the end of Part II?

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

Write an evaluative review of Molloy. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful?What are its uses? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 3

Molloy is a book in which Beckett has created a world for his character to live in, but it is a world that only sometimes resembles our world of experiences and observations. What are the advantages and disadvantages of creating a whole world for a character, with rules that apply only to that world, and are not even always explained? Is this an ultimately fruitful enterprise for Beckett, or does the artificiality of the enterprise work against him? Take a position on one side or the other.

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