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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The unnamed narrator recalls that whenever she sat on her father's lap in the observatory, she always restrained herself from asking him if he knew about the existence of the items in which piece of furniture?
(a) The desk.
(b) The Murphy bed.
(c) The cabinet.
(d) The bookcase.

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

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?
(a) A mailbox.
(b) A taxi stand.
(c) A car.
(d) A lamp pole.

4. The unnamed narrator's home on the island is very close to what sort of body of water?
(a) A bay.
(b) A bog.
(c) A river.
(d) A lake.

5. 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) 32.
(b) 16.
(c) 4.
(d) 73.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the Memory Police's "dark green trucks with canvas covers in back" (20) are present at the raid in Chapter 4?

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

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

4. What object does the unnamed narrator drop while reacting to the young prisoner's fall onto the concrete?

5. 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?

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