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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator calls her adopted dog Don because the name had been written on which item?
(a) His doghouse.
(b) The adoption papers.
(c) His tags.
(d) His bowl.

3. Chapter 15 begins with an excerpt from the narrator's novel about a protagonist with what job?
(a) Dentist.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Bank teller.
(d) Typist.

4. Which character asks the narrator about the old man's well-being in Chapter 15?
(a) The ex-milliner.
(b) Professor Inui.
(c) R's wife.
(d) A Memory Police officer.

5. How many Memory Police officers arrive to search the narrator's home in Chapter 17?
(a) 8 or 9.
(b) 10 or 12.
(c) 3 or 4.
(d) 5 or 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who originally comes up with the idea for R to hide from the Memory Police in the unnamed narrator's home?

2. In what locations do the narrator and R sit during their meetings about the narrator's newest novel?

3. How many officers appear on either side of the narrator in Chapter 13 and hurry her into the elevator before guiding her "through a maze of corridors and into a room at the heart of the building" (103)?

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. 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?

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