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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 18 begins with an excerpt of the narrator's novel about which protagonist?
(a) The novelist.
(b) The chef.
(c) The ballerina.
(d) The typist.

2. In what location are the narrator and the old man when the first natural disaster strikes in Chapter 21?
(a) On the boat.
(b) Sitting on the hill.
(c) In R's hidden room.
(d) In the library.

3. Which character claims that an experience with a music box alerted them to their disappearance immunity?
(a) The old man.
(b) The ex-milliner.
(c) The narrator's mother.
(d) R.

4. Chapter 15 begins with an excerpt from the narrator's novel about a protagonist with what job?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Dentist.
(c) Typist.
(d) Bank teller.

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

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

7. How many times is the trap door to R's room opened during the ex-milliner and his wife's stay?
(a) 0.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

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

9. 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?
(a) She covers her mouth.
(b) She grabs the old man's arm.
(c) She crouches down.
(d) She screams.

10. The sight of what objects convinces the narrator in Chapter 22 that the Inui family has been captured by the Memory Police?
(a) Glasses.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Gloves.
(d) Cats.

11. For what reason do the ex-milliner and his wife ask to stay overnight in the narrator's home?
(a) They need a change of scenery.
(b) Their house is being painted.
(c) Their house is haunted.
(d) Their house is being fumigated.

12. The narrator gets a new job in Chapter 20 with a company that produces what?
(a) Spices.
(b) Perfume.
(c) Pumpkins.
(d) Handkerchiefs.

13. 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) Fruit of all sorts.
(d) Animals of all sorts.

14. How does the narrator explain the presence of a pile of dirty dishes in her sink in Chapter 17?
(a) She says that she had been feeling lazy.
(b) She says that she freezes meals.
(c) She says that all of her guests had just left.
(d) She says that she had run out of dish soap.

15. What is NOT one of the foods to which the narrator has access in her new job?
(a) Sausage.
(b) Cheese.
(c) Milk.
(d) Corned beef.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 18, the narrator uses which of her five senses to put R under surveillance?

2. What is the only sound that can be heard within the headquarters of the Memory Police, according to the narrator?

3. On whose behalf does the narrator go out walking at the start of Chapter 22?

4. The narrator feels especially nervous in Chapter 17 when the Memory Police search which piece of furniture?

5. Which object's disappearance is named by the narrator to have been "the first time a disappearance seemed like a solemn ceremony" (192)?

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