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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 old man is trapped in Chapter 21, but he tells the narrator to run because of what reason?
(a) He is in a lot of pain.
(b) He is sure to die anyway.
(c) There is a tsunami on the way.
(d) She is young and brilliant.

2. What kind of old building "had been renovated to serve as the Memory Police headquarters" (101)?
(a) A train station.
(b) A bank.
(c) A hotel.
(d) A theater.

3. Chapter 15 begins with an excerpt from the narrator's novel about a protagonist with what job?
(a) Dentist.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Bank teller.
(d) Typist.

4. How many Memory Police officers arrive to search the narrator's home in Chapter 17?
(a) 10 or 12.
(b) 5 or 6.
(c) 3 or 4.
(d) 8 or 9.

5. When the old man moves to a new location in Chapter 22, where does he go?
(a) The boat.
(b) The library.
(c) The narrator's house.
(d) The ex-milliner's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator is no longer able to write novels, what does she type out over and over again?

2. What does the narrator do with all of her photographs in Chapter 13?

3. The narrator burns the latest disappeared objects in an incinerator in what location in Chapter 15?

4. What is NOT a task the narrator gives to R in Chapter 12?

5. On whose behalf does the narrator go out walking at the start of Chapter 22?

Short Essay Questions

1. One morning in Chapter 15, the narrator wakes up to find that what objects have been disappeared?

2. Which objects are disappeared in Chapter 19 and in what way does the disappearance personally affect the narrator?

3. What illogical conclusion does the narrator come to about R after their first sexual encounter, though she knows quite well how illogical it is?

4. What sorts of jobs does R begin to complete on the narrator's behalf in Chapter 12 and why?

5. For what reason does the narrator get particularly nervous when the Memory Police are searching her writing desk?

6. How does the theme of courage arise within Chapter 13 of The Memory Police?

7. In what way is the motif of sound used to inspire feelings of horror and suspense in the reader at the end of Chapter 16?

8. What object does R beg the narrator not to burn in Chapter 12 and what is her reaction?

9. What rare event occurs on the island in Chapter 12 and what plotline develops from it?

10. Who comes to stay with the narrator in Chapter 19 and why?

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