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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character gives a music box as a birthday gift in Chapter 16?
(a) The old man.
(b) The ex-milliner.
(c) The narrator.
(d) R.

2. It is rumored that the Memory Police have recruited all people with what job to be informants for them?
(a) Bricklayer.
(b) Carpenter.
(c) Plumber.
(d) Electrician.

3. 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.

4. The sound of what object interrupts the birthday celebration in progress at the end of Chapter 16?
(a) The doorbell.
(b) The wind.
(c) The radio.
(d) The air raid siren.

5. 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) 0.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times does the narrator repeat the old man's name before the officer at the desk says, "I'm afraid he's not here" (102)?

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

3. What is the only sound that can be heard within the headquarters of the Memory Police, according to the narrator?

4. What does the narrator do with all of her photographs in Chapter 13?

5. In what locations do the narrator and R sit during their meetings about the narrator's newest novel?

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