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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what type of abandoned school is the wooden box where R's wife and the old man exchange messages for R on days that end in zeros?
(a) An art school.
(b) A university.
(c) An elementary school.
(d) A high school.

2. On the day the narrator tells R that she has found a place for him to hide, he tells her that his wife is due to give birth in how many months?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

3. On what sort of seat did the unnamed narrator used to sit as a child in her mother's studio?
(a) A hassock.
(b) A stool.
(c) A bench.
(d) A swing.

4. A crowd gathers on the banks of what body of water in Chapter 6 to watch the latest objects disappear?
(a) The bog.
(b) The bay.
(c) The river.
(d) The lake.

5. How many days does it take for the body of water used for disappearing to return to normal?
(a) 30.
(b) 3.
(c) 12.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator anxiously waits for R on the appointed Wednesday, knowing that it generally takes how many minutes to walk from the station to her house?

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

5. R tells the unnamed narrator at the end of Chapter 8 that he has not taken what action?

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