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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 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?
(a) 10.
(b) 15.
(c) 20.
(d) 3.

2. R tells the unnamed narrator at the end of Chapter 8 that he has not taken what action?
(a) Forgotten anything.
(b) Forgotten his vow of revenge.
(c) Forgotten his mother.
(d) Forgotten his promise.

3. 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 put away their guns.
(c) She asks them to wipe their feet.
(d) She asks them to join her for breakfast.

4. The unnamed narrator recalls that whenever she sat on her father's lap in the observatory, she always restrained herself from asking him if he knew about the existence of the items in which piece of furniture?
(a) The desk.
(b) The cabinet.
(c) The bookcase.
(d) The Murphy bed.

5. The remodeling of R's future home within the unnamed narrator's house takes how many days for the old man to finish?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many objects are still within the drawers of the cabinet when R asks about them in Chapter 8?

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?

3. The unnamed narrator's mother and father had liked to meet at what location during their courtship?

4. The old man tells the unnamed narrator in Chapter 7 that he has lived on the island how much longer than she has?

5. A crowd gathers on the banks of what body of water in Chapter 6 to watch the latest objects disappear?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Discuss an instance when Ogawa uses a metaphor or simile to demonstrate the desolation that begins to characterize the island after many disappearances.

6. How is the raid witnessed by the narrator in Chapter 4 different than all previous raids, according to the narrator?

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

8. For what reason does R at first reject the narrator's offer of help in Chapter 10?

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

10. 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).

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