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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. 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) Lunch.
(c) Midnight snack.
(d) Breakfast.

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

3. 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) Called the Memory Police.
(b) Forgotten anything.
(c) Thrown anything away.
(d) Lost anything.

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

5. When the unnamed narrator hears tapping on the glass and finds Professor Inui and his family outside her home, the unnamed narrator recalls that the boy is how many years old?
(a) 16.
(b) 12.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. R asks to see which room of the unnamed narrator's home in Chapter 8?

3. What object does the unnamed narrator drop while reacting to the young prisoner's fall onto the concrete?

4. The unnamed narrator recalls that her mother had used what room in the house for her studio?

5. When R sees his room, he murmurs that it is "like a" what "floating in the sky" (76)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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).

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

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

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