Memory Police Test | Final Test - Medium

Yoko Ogawa
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 172 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Memory Police Test | Final Test - Medium

Yoko Ogawa
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 172 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what locations do the narrator and R sit during their meetings about the narrator's newest novel?
(a) They both sit on the bed.
(b) R sits on the bench and the narrator sits on the table.
(c) R sits in the chair and the narrator sits on the bed.
(d) R sits on the bed and the narrator sits in the chair.

2. When the couple next door is taken away by the Memory Police, what kind of pet do they leave behind?
(a) A dog.
(b) A fish.
(c) A cat.
(d) A snake.

3. How many days after the natural disasters does the narrator spot the Inuis?
(a) 6.
(b) 21.
(c) 12.
(d) 3.

4. What is NOT an item sent by the ex-milliner and his wife to the narrator in Chapter 19 to thank her for her hospitality?
(a) A pepper grinder.
(b) An umbrella.
(c) A sack of flour.
(d) A can of sardines.

5. What action do R, the narrator, and the old man take "for a long time" (204) once they are reunited in R's hidden room at the end of Chapter 21?
(a) They cry.
(b) They hug.
(c) They hold hands and stare at one another.
(d) They pray.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object catches the narrator's eye in Chapter 17 and causes her anxiety to grow during the search of her home?

2. The narrator feels especially nervous in Chapter 17 when the Memory Police search which piece of furniture?

3. The narrator calls her adopted dog Don because the name had been written on which item?

4. In Chapter 15, the narrator and the old man worry that the latest disappearance will put the island in a perpetual state of what?

5. In what location are the narrator and the old man when the first natural disaster strikes in Chapter 21?

Short Essay Questions

1. What object does R beg the narrator not to burn in Chapter 12 and what is her reaction?

2. In what way does the theme of surveillance appear within Chapter 18, in relation to the bond between R and the narrator?

3. What illogical conclusion does the narrator come to about R after their first sexual encounter, though she knows quite well how illogical it is?

4. What objects in the narrator's sink nearly result in disaster when the Memory Police see them in Chapter 17?

5. What rare event occurs on the island in Chapter 12 and what plotline develops from it?

6. In Chapter 14, the old man reports to the narrator that the Memory Police had been interested in what subject?

7. What objects are covering "every available space" (101) within the old theater now used as the Memory Police headquarters?

8. What sorts of jobs does R begin to complete on the narrator's behalf in Chapter 12 and why?

9. What special event do R, the narrator, and the old man decide to celebrate in R's room in Chapter 16?

10. What alarming event happens to the old man in Chapter 13?

(see the answer keys)

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