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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. Who is NOT the subject of one of the novelist narrator's three books that she has published thus far?
(a) A young woman caring for her ill brother.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A piano tuner.
(d) A ballerina with one leg.

5. What meal do the unnamed narrator and the old man share together in Chapter 5?
(a) Stew.
(b) Waffles.
(c) Omelettes.
(d) Hamburgers.

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator remarks that her newest novel is about a woman who works as a what?

2. 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?

3. In the opening line of Chapter 5, the unnamed narrator states that which season passes "quickly" (27)?

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

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