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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many Memory Police officers arrive to search the narrator's home in Chapter 17?
(a) 10 or 12.
(b) 5 or 6.
(c) 8 or 9.
(d) 3 or 4.

2. What rare weather occurs in Chapter 21?
(a) Sleet.
(b) Lightning.
(c) Snow.
(d) Hail.

3. The narrator feels especially nervous in Chapter 17 when the Memory Police search which piece of furniture?
(a) A dining room table.
(b) A bed.
(c) A desk.
(d) A cabinet.

4. What color patches does the narrator's adopted dog have on his coat?
(a) Orange.
(b) Brown.
(c) Black.
(d) White.

5. Chapter 12 begins with what type of feature?
(a) A story about the old man.
(b) An excerpt from the narrator's mother's diary.
(c) An excerpt from the narrator's newest novel.
(d) An arrest warrant.

6. When the couple next door is taken away by the Memory Police, what kind of pet do they leave behind?
(a) A fish.
(b) A snake.
(c) A dog.
(d) A cat.

7. How many officers appear on either side of the narrator in Chapter 13 and hurry her into the elevator before guiding her "through a maze of corridors and into a room at the heart of the building" (103)?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

8. The narrator burns the latest disappeared objects in an incinerator in what location in Chapter 15?
(a) Her garden.
(b) The street.
(c) The alley.
(d) Her balcony.

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

10. Which objects are disappeared in Chapter 12 almost immediately after all photographs are disappeared?
(a) Vegetables of all sorts.
(b) Insects of all sorts.
(c) Animals of all sorts.
(d) Fruit of all sorts.

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

12. The narrator calls her adopted dog Don because the name had been written on which item?
(a) The adoption papers.
(b) His tags.
(c) His bowl.
(d) His doghouse.

13. What is the first natural disaster to happen in Chapter 21?
(a) A flood.
(b) A tornado.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A tsunami.

14. Which character asks the narrator about the old man's well-being in Chapter 15?
(a) R's wife.
(b) Professor Inui.
(c) A Memory Police officer.
(d) The ex-milliner.

15. The old man is trapped in Chapter 21, but he tells the narrator to run because of what reason?
(a) There is a tsunami on the way.
(b) She is young and brilliant.
(c) He is in a lot of pain.
(d) He is sure to die anyway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character first notices that there are disappeared objects inside sculptures created by the narrator's mother?

2. Which character's birthday is celebrated in Chapter 16?

3. What action does the narrator "instinctively" (149) take at the start of Chapter 17, just after she has heard the doorbell ring at the end of Chapter 16?

4. What object seems to the narrator in Chapter 18 to be her "only ticket" for "admittance to the hidden room below [her]" (170)?

5. What is NOT one of the foods to which the narrator has access in her new job?

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