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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 18, the narrator uses which of her five senses to put R under surveillance?
(a) Her sense of smell.
(b) Her sight.
(c) Her touch.
(d) Her hearing.

2. Chapter 12 begins with what type of feature?
(a) An arrest warrant.
(b) An excerpt from the narrator's mother's diary.
(c) A story about the old man.
(d) An excerpt from the narrator's newest novel.

3. How many officers appear on either side of the narrator in Chapter 13 and hurry her into the elevator before guiding her "through a maze of corridors and into a room at the heart of the building" (103)?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 8.

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

5. 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) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 4.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator recalls that whenever she sat on her father's lap in the observatory, she always restrained herself from asking him if he knew about the existence of the items in which piece of furniture?

2. 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?

3. What action does the narrator say that "R always" takes "now" (191) in Chapter 20?

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. What rare request does R make of the narrator in Chapter 12?

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