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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Near the end of Chapter 8, R detects the scent of what object within one of the empty drawers in the cabinet?
(a) Cinnamon.
(b) Ginger.
(c) Perfume.
(d) Vanilla.

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) 5.
(b) 8.
(c) 2.
(d) 11.

3. How many other things about R does the unnamed narrator know in addition to that fact that he works as an editor?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 0.

4. In what location does the narrator tell R that she has found a hiding place for him?
(a) At the library.
(b) On the old man's boat.
(c) At R's office.
(d) At the narrator's house.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On Wednesday afternoon at the start of Chapter 4, the unnamed narrator has her third encounter with the Memory Police within what length of time?

3. A crowd gathers on the banks of what body of water in Chapter 6 to watch the latest objects disappear?

4. The unnamed narrator's favorite story of her mother's was the one about what object?

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

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