1. Once R and the narrator fall into a predictable daily routine, what is the only time she lingers in R's room to chat?
(a) When she collects his dinner tray.
(b) When she collects his lunch tray.
(c) When she brings him a bucket of water for bathing.
(d) When she collects his breakfast tray.

2. The unnamed narrator's mother and father had liked to meet at what location during their courtship?
(a) The willow tree.
(b) The rose garden.
(c) The hospital.
(d) The museum.

3. Where is the hatch located that serves as the only way to get into R's hiding place in the home of the unnamed narrator?
(a) In the floor of her late father's office.
(b) In the floor of the basement.
(c) In the floor of the kitchen.
(d) In the ceiling of the basement.

4. 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) 0.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

5. When R sees his room, he murmurs that it is "like a" what "floating in the sky" (76)?
(a) Piano.
(b) Canoe.
(c) Coffin.
(d) Cave.

Short Answer 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?

2. Which objects are disappeared from the island in Chapter 6?

3. It is rumored that the Memory Police have recruited all people with what job to be informants for them?

4. What word is used to describe the sound made by a particular object at the end of Chapter 16?

5. It is revealed in Chapter 13 that the narrator keeps her end of the communication device behind what object in her desk?

(see the answer key)

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