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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's mother and father had liked to meet at what location during their courtship?
(a) The museum.
(b) The hospital.
(c) The willow tree.
(d) The rose garden.

2. 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) Thrown anything away.
(c) Called the Memory Police.
(d) Lost anything.

3. When the unnamed narrator used to take a particular meal to her father's observatory as an excuse to spend time with him there, what meal did she always bring?
(a) Dinner.
(b) Midnight snack.
(c) Breakfast.
(d) Lunch.

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

5. 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) 0.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. What knitted object does the unnamed narrator give to the old man in Chapter 5?

2. On Wednesday afternoon at the start of Chapter 4, the unnamed narrator has her third encounter with the Memory Police within what length of time?

3. What kind of scientist was the unnamed narrator's father prior to his death?

4. On what sort of seat did the unnamed narrator used to sit as a child in her mother's studio?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason does the narrator visit R's office in Chapter 10?

2. Once R agrees to accept the narrator's offer to hide him, what instructions does she give him?

3. Explain the first line of the novel, which states, "I sometimes wonder what was disappeared first---among all the things that have vanished from the island" (3).

4. What is the symbolism of the cabinet the unnamed narrator describes in relation to her mother in Chapter 1?

5. What does the old man do with the page of the old ferry log on which he and the narrator have written their plans for hiding R?

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

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

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

9. What type of artist was the unnamed narrator's mother and why is this detail significant?

10. What particular aspect of the birds' disappearance bothers the narrator the most?

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