View a FREE sample

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

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) Theft.
(c) Smuggling.
(d) Birds.

2. The unnamed narrator of The Memory Police states in Chapter 1 that her mother had been what type of artist?
(a) A painter.
(b) A dancer.
(c) A sculptor.
(d) A poet.

3. 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.

4. The narrator's new editor tells the narrator that R had left an empty desk, except for her novel, when he suddenly took what action?
(a) Moved away.
(b) Disappeared.
(c) Quit.
(d) Got fired.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a business housed within the strip mall raided by the Memory Police in Chapter 4?

2. What objects take up "every available space" (102) in the headquarters of the Memory Police?

3. 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?

4. When the Memory Police arrive unannounced at the unnamed narrator's home in Chapter 2, what action does she ask them to take, though she is ignored?

5. What is the name of the Inuis' cat, whom the narrator claims could be easily identified by the Memory Police?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 316 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample