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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the opening line of Chapter 5, the unnamed narrator states that which season passes "quickly" (27)?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Summer.
(c) Spring.
(d) Winter.

2. In Chapter 9, the Memory Police are said to be "appearing more often in the streets" (64) riding in trucks painted what color?
(a) Dark green.
(b) Red.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Black.

3. How many people do the Memory Police take away in the back of one of their trucks after the raid at the strip mall in Chapter 4?
(a) 73.
(b) 16.
(c) 4.
(d) 32.

4. 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?
(a) A high school.
(b) A university.
(c) An art school.
(d) An elementary school.

5. When R sees his room, he murmurs that it is "like a" what "floating in the sky" (76)?
(a) Coffin.
(b) Canoe.
(c) Cave.
(d) Piano.

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator observes in Chapter 6 that her literary editor R is asking about what element of her life whenever he asks how she is doing?

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

3. The unnamed narrator of The Memory Police states in Chapter 1 that her mother had been what type of artist?

4. Chapter 2 describes in detail the narrator's reaction to which creatures being disappeared from the island?

5. How many years before the narrative present did the unnamed narrator's nurse die of a heart attack, as revealed in Chapter 2?

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