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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character claims that an experience with a music box alerted them to their disappearance immunity?
(a) The narrator's mother.
(b) The ex-milliner.
(c) The old man.
(d) R.

2. What rare request does R make of the narrator in Chapter 12?
(a) A visit from his wife.
(b) An apple.
(c) A photograph of his son.
(d) Some form of work to do.

3. When the old man moves to a new location in Chapter 22, where does he go?
(a) The library.
(b) The ex-milliner's house.
(c) The narrator's house.
(d) The boat.

4. The narrator is perplexed by her new editor's question about what topic, since R had never posed the question to her?
(a) What she would like to get paid.
(b) Whether she has ever been in love.
(c) When her next novel will be finished.
(d) Her ideas for her next novel.

5. Which character asks the narrator about the old man's well-being in Chapter 15?
(a) A Memory Police officer.
(b) R's wife.
(c) Professor Inui.
(d) The ex-milliner.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, the Memory Police are said to be "appearing more often in the streets" (64) riding in trucks painted what color?

2. Which character is taken by the Memory Police in Chapter 13?

3. In Chapter 18, the narrator uses which of her five senses to put R under surveillance?

4. The unnamed narrator's mother and father had liked to meet at what location during their courtship?

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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