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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word is used to describe the sound made by a particular object at the end of Chapter 16?
(a) Shrill.
(b) Loud.
(c) Resonant.
(d) Soft.

2. Which character eats and smiles less frequently after the search of the narrator's home by the Memory Police?
(a) The narrator.
(b) R.
(c) The old man.
(d) The ex-milliner.

3. How many Memory Police officers arrive to search the narrator's home in Chapter 17?
(a) 8 or 9.
(b) 5 or 6.
(c) 10 or 12.
(d) 3 or 4.

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?
(a) Lunch.
(b) Breakfast.
(c) Midnight snack.
(d) Dinner.

5. What kind of old building "had been renovated to serve as the Memory Police headquarters" (101)?
(a) A theater.
(b) A bank.
(c) A hotel.
(d) A train station.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before the narrator visits the headquarters of the Memory Police in Chapter 13, she tells R, "I suppose all I can do is" (100) take what action?

2. In Chapter 15, the narrator and the old man worry that the latest disappearance will put the island in a perpetual state of what?

3. Which character gives a shaving kit as a birthday gift in Chapter 16?

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

5. How does the narrator explain the presence of a pile of dirty dishes in her sink in Chapter 17?

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