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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 took place before his son departed for good?
2. What did Moran put in his son’s milk?
3. What does Moran say he was drowning in?
4. What order did Moran give his son in German?
5. When the man comes to Moran’s shelter on the second day, he asks Moran if he has seen someone: who did he ask about?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gaber tell Moran when he meets him the second time?
2. What does Moran say is the value of finishing a job like this?
3. What steps did Moran take to repair his son’s health?
4. How does Moran characterize the process of dying?
5. How did Martha learn that Moran and his son were going away?
6. Under what conditions do Moran and his son part for the first time?
7. What is the naming convention that Moran describes for the region around Bally?
8. What did Gaber tell Moran that Youdi had told him?
9. How does Moran characterize the man who hailed him on the second night?
10. What is the first cause of tension between Moran and his son, after they leave?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate the ending of Molloy. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?
Essay Topic 2
Molloy can be described as a surrealist or an existentialist novel. How well do these descriptions fit the book? Where do these terms fit it well? Where is the fit imprecise? In your experience, what are the books Molloy most resembles?
Essay Topic 3
Who is the audience for Molloy? What is the ideal reader for Molloy likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
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