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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What object does the unnamed narrator drop while reacting to the young prisoner's fall onto the concrete?
(a) The envelope containing her manuscript.
(b) Her wallet.
(c) Her cup of coffee.
(d) Her keys.

3. At the end of Chapter 1, the unnamed narrator recalls asking her mother, "Why are you the only one who hasn't" (7) taken what action?
(a) Called the Memory Police.
(b) Lost anything.
(c) Thrown anything away.
(d) Forgotten anything.

4. On what sort of seat did the unnamed narrator used to sit as a child in her mother's studio?
(a) A hassock.
(b) A swing.
(c) A bench.
(d) A stool.

5. How many objects are still within the drawers of the cabinet when R asks about them in Chapter 8?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 8.
(d) 0.

Short Answer Questions

1. The old man tells the unnamed narrator in Chapter 7 that he has lived on the island how much longer than she has?

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. R asks to see which room of the unnamed narrator's home in Chapter 8?

4. The unnamed narrator states that "it has been" how many "years since [the Memory Police] first appeared" (20)?

5. 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?

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