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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The unnamed narrator recalls that the disappeared objects in her palm had felt "like little" (5) what?
(a) Reminders.
(b) Talismans.
(c) Animals.
(d) Charms.

2. In what location does the narrator tell R that she has found a hiding place for him?
(a) On the old man's boat.
(b) At the library.
(c) At R's office.
(d) At the narrator's house.

3. Once R and the narrator fall into a predictable daily routine, what is the only time she lingers in R's room to chat?
(a) When she collects his lunch tray.
(b) When she brings him a bucket of water for bathing.
(c) When she collects his dinner tray.
(d) When she collects his breakfast tray.

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

5. The narrator's new editor tells the narrator that R had left an empty desk, except for her novel, when he suddenly took what action?
(a) Quit.
(b) Got fired.
(c) Disappeared.
(d) Moved away.

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator remarks that her newest novel is about a woman who works as a what?

2. The narrator is perplexed by her new editor's question about what topic, since R had never posed the question to her?

3. The unnamed narrator states in Chapter 2 that she believes that she has a group of which family members "living in a village near the source of the far side of the mountains" (8)?

4. 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?

5. How many years before the narrative present did the unnamed narrator's nurse die of a heart attack, as revealed in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is named as "the first duty of the Memory Police" (14)?

2. At what sight do the narrator and the old man gaze during their discussion of the Memory Police in Chapter 7?

3. When an excerpt of the novel about the typist is provided at the start of Chapter 8, what has the protagonist lost?

4. What do the black garbage bags symbolize in Chapter 2?

5. What type of routine do the narrator and R fall into once R gets settled in his room in Chapter 11?

6. What type of document is presented within the text for the first, but not the last, time in Chapter 6?

7. For what reason do the Memory Police visit the unnamed narrator in Chapter 2?

8. Discuss an instance when Ogawa uses a metaphor or simile to describe R's ability to hold onto memories of disappeared objects.

9. When the narrator makes her usual stop at the ornithology observatory in Chapter 3, what does she find there?

10. What does the pair of light blue gloves symbolize, from the narrator's perspective?

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