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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The unnamed narrator's favorite story of her mother's was the one about what object?
(a) A mountain.
(b) A bottle of perfume.
(c) A watch.
(d) A book.

2. The unnamed narrator remarks that her newest novel is about a woman who works as a what?
(a) A nurse.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A typist.

3. On Wednesday afternoon at the start of Chapter 4, the unnamed narrator has her third encounter with the Memory Police within what length of time?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 1 day.
(d) 1 year.

4. How many years before the narrative present did the unnamed narrator's nurse die of a heart attack, as revealed in Chapter 2?
(a) 11.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 8.

5. When the unnamed narrator hears tapping on the glass and finds Professor Inui and his family outside her home, the unnamed narrator recalls that the boy is how many years old?
(a) 16.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator states that "it has been" how many "years since [the Memory Police] first appeared" (20)?

2. When the Memory Police arrive unannounced at the unnamed narrator's home in Chapter 2, what action does she ask them to take, though she is ignored?

3. What object does the unnamed narrator drop while reacting to the young prisoner's fall onto the concrete?

4. Professor Inui tells the unnamed narrator in Chapter 5 that he and his family must move to what location in the morning?

5. The unnamed narrator recalls that the disappeared objects in her palm had felt "like little" (5) what?

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