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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's favorite story of her mother's was the one about what object?
(a) A book.
(b) A mountain.
(c) A bottle of perfume.
(d) A watch.

2. By what letter of the alphabet does the unnamed narrator refer to her literary editor?
(a) Q.
(b) L.
(c) P.
(d) R.

3. The unnamed narrator states that "it has been" how many "years since [the Memory Police] first appeared" (20)?
(a) 15.
(b) 25.
(c) 20.
(d) 10.

4. 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) 16.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 4.

5. 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 put away their guns.
(d) She asks them to wipe their feet.

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. What is NOT a business housed within the strip mall raided by the Memory Police in Chapter 4?

3. What is NOT a reason that "no one ever attempts to cross" (8) the mountains to the north?

4. On what sort of seat did the unnamed narrator used to sit as a child in her mother's studio?

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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