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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 old man reports to the narrator in Chapter 14 that the Memory Police had interrogated him about what subject?
(a) Fruit.
(b) Smuggling.
(c) Theft.
(d) Birds.

2. In Chapter 15, the narrator and the old man worry that the latest disappearance will put the island in a perpetual state of what?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Regret.
(c) Winter.
(d) Anger.

3. What is the name of the Inuis' cat, whom the narrator claims could be easily identified by the Memory Police?
(a) Layla.
(b) Mizore.
(c) Fumiko.
(d) Kiku.

4. What word related to the narrator's latest novel does she utter over and over to herself in Chapter 20?
(a) Dancer.
(b) Accountant.
(c) Typist.
(d) Teller.

5. In what location does the narrator tell R that she has found a hiding place for him?
(a) At the narrator's house.
(b) At R's office.
(c) At the library.
(d) On the old man's boat.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The music box featured in Chapter 16 has "four small legs resembling" what type of animal's "paws" (143)?

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

4. Who begs the narrator not to burn the photograph of her mother she keeps on the mantelpiece?

5. Once R and the narrator fall into a predictable daily routine, what is the only time she lingers in R's room to chat?

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