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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What object does the unnamed narrator drop while reacting to the young prisoner's fall onto the concrete?
(a) Her cup of coffee.
(b) The envelope containing her manuscript.
(c) Her keys.
(d) Her wallet.

2. At what type of abandoned school is the wooden box where R's wife and the old man exchange messages for R on days that end in zeros?
(a) A university.
(b) A high school.
(c) An art school.
(d) An elementary school.

3. The old man attempts to reassure the unnamed narrator by telling her in Chapter 7, "Those Memory Police are only after people who aren't able to" (54) take which action?
(a) Forget.
(b) Surrender.
(c) Obey.
(d) Remember.

4. How many other things about R does the unnamed narrator know in addition to that fact that he works as an editor?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 0.

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

6. In or on what piece of furniture did the unnamed narrator's keep her disappeared objects?
(a) A desk.
(b) A cabinet.
(c) A bookcase.
(d) A drafting table.

7. 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) Forgotten anything.
(b) Called the Memory Police.
(c) Lost anything.
(d) Thrown anything away.

8. The old man declares that what weather had been helpful in getting R smuggled into the narrator's home?
(a) Snow.
(b) Sun.
(c) Rain.
(d) Wind.

9. How many objects are still within the drawers of the cabinet when R asks about them in Chapter 8?
(a) 0.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 2.

10. The unnamed narrator states that "it has been" how many "years since [the Memory Police] first appeared" (20)?
(a) 25.
(b) 20.
(c) 15.
(d) 10.

11. The unnamed narrator remarks that her newest novel is about a woman who works as a what?
(a) A typist.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A nurse.

12. How many of the Memory Police's "dark green trucks with canvas covers in back" (20) are present at the raid in Chapter 4?
(a) 9.
(b) 13.
(c) 23.
(d) 3.

13. How often does the narrator down supplies to R so that he may bathe?
(a) Every other day.
(b) Every three days.
(c) Every day.
(d) Once a week.

14. 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) 10.
(b) 15.
(c) 3.
(d) 20.

15. Where is the hatch located that serves as the only way to get into R's hiding place in the home of the unnamed narrator?
(a) In the floor of the basement.
(b) In the ceiling of the basement.
(c) In the floor of her late father's office.
(d) In the floor of the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the day the narrator tells R that she has found a place for him to hide, he tells her that his wife is due to give birth in how many months?

2. The unnamed narrator recalls that her mother had used what room in the house for her studio?

3. What is NOT a reason that "no one ever attempts to cross" (8) the mountains to the north?

4. R asks to see which room of the unnamed narrator's home in Chapter 8?

5. A crowd gathers on the banks of what body of water in Chapter 6 to watch the latest objects disappear?

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