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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The unnamed narrator of The Memory Police states in Chapter 1 that her mother had been what type of artist?
(a) A painter.
(b) A dancer.
(c) A sculptor.
(d) A poet.

3. 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 bookcase.
(b) The cabinet.
(c) The desk.
(d) The Murphy bed.

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

5. What knitted object does the unnamed narrator give to the old man in Chapter 5?
(a) A sweater.
(b) A pair of gloves.
(c) A scarf.
(d) A hat.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The unnamed narrator recalls that the disappeared objects in her palm had felt "like little" (5) what?

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

4. From what location does the old man come to help the unnamed narrator prepare for the colder weather?

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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