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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. In Chapter 18, the narrator uses which of her five senses to put R under surveillance?
(a) Her sight.
(b) Her touch.
(c) Her sense of smell.
(d) Her hearing.

2. In what location is a birthday party held in Chapter 16?
(a) The narrator's basement.
(b) R's hidden room.
(c) The narrator's dining room.
(d) The riverbank.

3. Which character asks the narrator about the old man's well-being in Chapter 15?
(a) A Memory Police officer.
(b) The ex-milliner.
(c) R's wife.
(d) Professor Inui.

4. Who initiates the first kiss between the narrator and R at the end of Chapter 17?
(a) It is a mutual initiation.
(b) R.
(c) The narrator.
(d) They never share a first kiss.

5. The sound of what object interrupts the birthday celebration in progress at the end of Chapter 16?
(a) The wind.
(b) The doorbell.
(c) The air raid siren.
(d) The radio.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days after the natural disasters does the narrator spot the Inuis?

2. What object seems to the narrator in Chapter 18 to be her "only ticket" for "admittance to the hidden room below [her]" (170)?

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

4. The narrator states that the disappearances "slowed down" (94) for a while after which objects were disappeared?

5. Which object's disappearance is named by the narrator to have been "the first time a disappearance seemed like a solemn ceremony" (192)?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 14, the old man reports to the narrator that the Memory Police had been interested in what subject?

2. How does the narrator acquire the dog named Don in Chapter 19 and what is the significance of her acquisition?

3. To what object is the narrator referring when she states in Chapter 19, "Never had I seen anything burn as brightly" (183)?

4. What new job does the narrator take in Chapter 20 and why?

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

6. In what way is the theme of altruism demonstrated in Chapter 21 when an earthquake rocks the island?

7. In what way does the theme of surveillance appear within Chapter 18, in relation to the bond between R and the narrator?

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

9. What gift does R bestow upon the old man in Chapter 16 and what hopes does R have for the present?

10. What objects are covering "every available space" (101) within the old theater now used as the Memory Police headquarters?

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