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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) She asks them to take off their boots.
(b) She asks them to join her for breakfast.
(c) She asks them to wipe their feet.
(d) She asks them to put away their guns.

3. Chapter 2 describes in detail the narrator's reaction to which creatures being disappeared from the island?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Flies.
(c) Cats.
(d) Birds.

4. When the unnamed narrator used to take a particular meal to her father's observatory as an excuse to spend time with him there, what meal did she always bring?
(a) Dinner.
(b) Breakfast.
(c) Midnight snack.
(d) Lunch.

5. When the unnamed narrator hears tapping on the glass and finds Professor Inui and his family outside her home, the unnamed narrator recalls that the boy is how many years old?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 4.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. Professor Inui tells the unnamed narrator in Chapter 5 that he and his family must move to what location in the morning?

2. What knitted object does the unnamed narrator give to the old man in Chapter 5?

3. R comes over to the unnamed narrator's house in Chapter 8 for what reason?

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

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

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