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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The music box featured in Chapter 16 is lined with what material?
(a) Felt.
(b) Chiffon.
(c) Muslin.
(d) Satin.

4. How many years before the narrative present did the unnamed narrator's nurse die of a heart attack, as revealed in Chapter 2?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 11.
(d) 8.

5. Chapter 15 begins with an excerpt from the narrator's novel about a protagonist with what job?
(a) Typist.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Dentist.
(d) Bank teller.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who begs the narrator not to burn the photograph of her mother she keeps on the mantelpiece?

2. How many days does it take for the body of water used for disappearing to return to normal?

3. 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?

4. How many Memory Police officers arrive to search the narrator's home in Chapter 17?

5. The narrator calls her adopted dog Don because the name had been written on which item?

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