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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. R comes over to the unnamed narrator's house in Chapter 8 for what reason?
(a) To review her latest novel pages.
(b) To ask for asylum.
(c) To warn her.
(d) To borrow a cup of sugar.

2. Over time, the narrator finds that to keep R at his best, "the morning agenda" needs "to be as" what "as possible" (93)?
(a) Concrete.
(b) Long.
(c) Brief.
(d) Vague.

3. The unnamed narrator recalls that the disappeared objects in her palm had felt "like little" (5) what?
(a) Reminders.
(b) Charms.
(c) Animals.
(d) Talismans.

4. Which character gives a music box as a birthday gift in Chapter 16?
(a) R.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The old man.
(d) The ex-milliner.

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?
(a) When she brings him a bucket of water for bathing.
(b) When she collects his breakfast tray.
(c) When she collects his lunch tray.
(d) When she collects his dinner tray.

Short Answer Questions

1. The old man declares that what weather had been helpful in getting R smuggled into the narrator's home?

2. When R hears the unnamed narrator's description of the one object she remembers her mother showing to her, R identifies it as which stone?

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?

4. What meal do the unnamed narrator and the old man share together in Chapter 5?

5. The old man attempts to reassure the unnamed narrator by telling her in Chapter 7, "Those Memory Police are only after people who aren't able to" (54) take which action?

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