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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What objects take up "every available space" (102) in the headquarters of the Memory Police?
(a) Knives.
(b) Mirrors.
(c) Pennants.
(d) Guns.

4. The old man reports to the narrator in Chapter 14 that the Memory Police had interrogated him about what subject?
(a) Smuggling.
(b) Birds.
(c) Fruit.
(d) Theft.

5. What is the only sound that can be heard within the headquarters of the Memory Police, according to the narrator?
(a) Music.
(b) The ringing of heels against the hard floor.
(c) The rainfall on the roof.
(d) Screaming.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 12 begins with what type of feature?

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

3. The old man tells the unnamed narrator in Chapter 7 that he has lived on the island how much longer than she has?

4. Which character asks the narrator about the old man's well-being in Chapter 15?

5. Over time, the narrator finds that to keep R at his best, "the morning agenda" needs "to be as" what "as possible" (93)?

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