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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Professor Inui tells the unnamed narrator in Chapter 5 that he and his family must move to what location in the morning?
(a) The internment camp.
(b) The Memory Police barracks.
(c) The genetic analysis center.
(d) The medical faculty office.

2. In what locations do the narrator and R sit during their meetings about the narrator's newest novel?
(a) They both sit on the bed.
(b) R sits in the chair and the narrator sits on the bed.
(c) R sits on the bench and the narrator sits on the table.
(d) R sits on the bed and the narrator sits in the chair.

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

4. How many years before the narrative present did the unnamed narrator's nurse die of a heart attack, as revealed in Chapter 2?
(a) 2.
(b) 8.
(c) 11.
(d) 5.

5. For how many hours do the narrator and the old man gather hidden sculptures at the cabin in Chapter 23?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator and the old man bring the disappeared objects to R on a tray in Chapter 24, he says, "I truly believe they have the power to" (230) do what to the narrator and the old man?

2. The old man is trapped in Chapter 21, but he tells the narrator to run because of what reason?

3. At what object is the old man staring when the narrator encounters him unexpectedly in Chapter 24?

4. What position does the narrator take within the company when she gets a new job in Chapter 20?

5. Who begs the narrator not to burn the photograph of her mother she keeps on the mantelpiece?

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