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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 suggests that the rest of the narrator's mother's sculptures are likely hidden at the old cabin?
(a) R.
(b) The old man.
(c) The ex-milliner's wife.
(d) The narrator.

2. 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?
(a) The desk.
(b) The bookcase.
(c) The Murphy bed.
(d) The cabinet.

3. What object catches the narrator's eye in Chapter 17 and causes her anxiety to grow during the search of her home?
(a) The notepad.
(b) The rug.
(c) The refrigerator.
(d) The novel.

4. At the end of Chapter 1, the unnamed narrator recalls asking her mother, "Why are you the only one who hasn't" (7) taken what action?
(a) Lost anything.
(b) Forgotten anything.
(c) Called the Memory Police.
(d) Thrown anything away.

5. The narrator states that the disappearances "slowed down" (94) for a while after which objects were disappeared?
(a) Hats.
(b) Ferries.
(c) Roses.
(d) Birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. What word related to the narrator's latest novel does she utter over and over to herself in Chapter 20?

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

5. The unnamed narrator remarks that her newest novel is about a woman who works as a what?

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