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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is NOT the subject of one of the novelist narrator's three books that she has published thus far?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A piano tuner.
(c) A young woman caring for her ill brother.
(d) A ballerina with one leg.

2. What action do R, the narrator, and the old man take "for a long time" (204) once they are reunited in R's hidden room at the end of Chapter 21?
(a) They hold hands and stare at one another.
(b) They pray.
(c) They cry.
(d) They hug.

3. How many black garbage bags full of the unnamed narrator's late father's belongings do the five Memory Police officers seize after their hour-long search?
(a) 15.
(b) 3.
(c) 20.
(d) 10.

4. The unnamed narrator's favorite story of her mother's was the one about what object?
(a) A book.
(b) A mountain.
(c) A watch.
(d) A bottle of perfume.

5. 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 Murphy bed.
(b) The cabinet.
(c) The desk.
(d) The bookcase.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which character is "no longer able to jump at the tree branches to knock down the snow" (270) in Chapter 28?

3. The narrator states in Chapter 28, "Once our entire bodies were gone, no one seemed particularly" (270) what?

4. The unnamed narrator recalls that the disappeared objects in her palm had felt "like little" (5) what?

5. What meal do the unnamed narrator and the old man share together in Chapter 5?

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