View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only sound that can be heard within the headquarters of the Memory Police, according to the narrator?
(a) Music.
(b) The rainfall on the roof.
(c) Screaming.
(d) The ringing of heels against the hard floor.

2. Which character gives a music box as a birthday gift in Chapter 16?
(a) The old man.
(b) The narrator.
(c) R.
(d) The ex-milliner.

3. Before the narrator visits the headquarters of the Memory Police in Chapter 13, she tells R, "I suppose all I can do is" (100) take what action?
(a) Hope.
(b) Believe.
(c) Run.
(d) Pray.

4. Which object's disappearance is named by the narrator to have been "the first time a disappearance seemed like a solemn ceremony" (192)?
(a) The umbrella.
(b) The hairbrush.
(c) The diamond.
(d) The novel.

5. What action does the narrator say that "R always" takes "now" (191) in Chapter 20?
(a) He takes her in his arms.
(b) He lies to her.
(c) He admonishes her.
(d) He shakes her hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. The music box featured in Chapter 16 is lined with what material?

2. Who begs the narrator not to burn the photograph of her mother she keeps on the mantelpiece?

3. When the couple next door is taken away by the Memory Police, what kind of pet do they leave behind?

4. What two items does the narrator try to leave for the old man when she visits the headquarters of the Memory Police in Chapter 13?

5. Which character claims that an experience with a music box alerted them to their disappearance immunity?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What alarming event happens to the old man in Chapter 13?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,255 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample