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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. Who is NOT the subject of one of the novelist narrator's three books that she has published thus far?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A piano tuner.
(c) A ballerina with one leg.
(d) A young woman caring for her ill brother.

2. The narrator is perplexed by her new editor's question about what topic, since R had never posed the question to her?
(a) When her next novel will be finished.
(b) Her ideas for her next novel.
(c) What she would like to get paid.
(d) Whether she has ever been in love.

3. What is NOT a business housed within the strip mall raided by the Memory Police in Chapter 4?
(a) A dentist's office.
(b) A dance studio.
(c) An insurance company.
(d) A karate studio.

4. When the Memory Police arrive unannounced at the unnamed narrator's home in Chapter 2, what action does she ask them to take, though she is ignored?
(a) She asks them to take off their boots.
(b) She asks them to join her for breakfast.
(c) She asks them to put away their guns.
(d) She asks them to wipe their feet.

5. The unnamed narrator states in Chapter 6, "It's always sad when a" what "disappears" (44)?
(a) Flower.
(b) Pet.
(c) Food.
(d) Article of clothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. R tells the unnamed narrator at the end of Chapter 8 that he has not taken what action?

2. Which season is said to have "deepened" (64) on the island by the time Chapter 9 begins?

3. The old man declares that what weather had been helpful in getting R smuggled into the narrator's home?

4. 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?

5. How many people do the Memory Police take away in the back of one of their trucks after the raid at the strip mall in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What information is revealed in Chapter 5 about the narrator's mother and her interactions with the Memory Police?

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

(see the answer keys)

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