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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 18 begins with an excerpt of the narrator's novel about which protagonist?
(a) The typist.
(b) The ballerina.
(c) The chef.
(d) The novelist.

2. What action does the narrator say that "R always" takes "now" (191) in Chapter 20?
(a) He takes her in his arms.
(b) He shakes her hand.
(c) He lies to her.
(d) He admonishes her.

3. At what type of abandoned school is the wooden box where R's wife and the old man exchange messages for R on days that end in zeros?
(a) A high school.
(b) An elementary school.
(c) An art school.
(d) A university.

4. When it snows on the island in Chapter 12, the narrator states that it has been at least how many years since snow has fallen there?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 2.

5. The narrator is perplexed by her new editor's question about what topic, since R had never posed the question to her?
(a) When her next novel will be finished.
(b) Whether she has ever been in love.
(c) Her ideas for her next novel.
(d) What she would like to get paid.

Short Answer Questions

1. The music box featured in Chapter 16 is lined with what material?

2. Near the end of Chapter 8, R detects the scent of what object within one of the empty drawers in the cabinet?

3. When R sees his room, he murmurs that it is "like a" what "floating in the sky" (76)?

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?

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?

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