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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. How many days does it take for the body of water used for disappearing to return to normal?
(a) 5.
(b) 30.
(c) 3.
(d) 12.

2. The narrator tells R in Chapter 11, "I suspect the only reason I've been able to go on writing is that I've had your" what "by my side all along" (82)?
(a) Shadow.
(b) Brilliance.
(c) Guidance.
(d) Heart.

3. When R hears the unnamed narrator's description of the one object she remembers her mother showing to her, R identifies it as which stone?
(a) Emerald.
(b) Diamond.
(c) Sapphire.
(d) Ruby.

4. The narrator anxiously waits for R on the appointed Wednesday, knowing that it generally takes how many minutes to walk from the station to her house?
(a) 25.
(b) 30.
(c) 10.
(d) 60.

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. The unnamed narrator recalls her mother telling her that which type of stone had been inherited from the narrator's great-grandmother?

2. The remodeling of R's future home within the unnamed narrator's house takes how many days for the old man to finish?

3. How many other things about R does the unnamed narrator know in addition to that fact that he works as an editor?

4. 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?

5. When the raid on the strip mall begins, the unnamed narrator hides behind what object while she clutches the envelope that holds her latest manuscript?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What objects are disappeared within Chapter 6 and what is different about the disppearances in this chapter?

7. Who raps on the narrator's basement window in Chapter 4 and for what purpose?

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

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

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

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