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

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 join her for breakfast.
(c) She asks them to wipe their feet.
(d) She asks them to take off their boots.

2. 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 car.
(c) A lamp pole.
(d) A taxi stand.

3. 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) 8.
(b) 16.
(c) 4.
(d) 12.

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

5. In Chapter 9, the Memory Police are said to be "appearing more often in the streets" (64) riding in trucks painted what color?
(a) Dark green.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 2 describes in detail the narrator's reaction to which creatures being disappeared from the island?

2. Near the end of Chapter 8, R detects the scent of what object within one of the empty drawers in the cabinet?

3. Once R and the narrator fall into a predictable daily routine, what is the only time she lingers in R's room to chat?

4. When R hears the unnamed narrator's description of the one object she remembers her mother showing to her, R identifies it as which stone?

5. The narrator tells R in Chapter 10 that which character will meet him on Wednesday at 8 a.m. at Central Station?

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