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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which character claims that an experience with a music box alerted them to their disappearance immunity?
(a) The narrator's mother.
(b) R.
(c) The ex-milliner.
(d) The old man.

3. The unnamed narrator recalls that whenever she sat on her father's lap in the observatory, she always restrained herself from asking him if he knew about the existence of the items in which piece of furniture?
(a) The bookcase.
(b) The desk.
(c) The cabinet.
(d) The Murphy bed.

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

5. What kind of scientist was the unnamed narrator's father prior to his death?
(a) An entomologist.
(b) An astronomer.
(c) A geologist.
(d) An ornithologist.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the raid on the strip mall begins, the unnamed narrator hides behind what object while she clutches the envelope that holds her latest manuscript?

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

3. The conversation between the unnamed narrator and the old man in Chapter 7 takes place on what type of vehicle?

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

5. The narrator's neighbors who are a couple in their thirties have what kind of pet?

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