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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. Which character claims that an experience with a music box alerted them to their disappearance immunity?
(a) The old man.
(b) The ex-milliner.
(c) R.
(d) The narrator's mother.

2. It is revealed in Chapter 13 that the narrator keeps her end of the communication device behind what object in her desk?
(a) A calendar.
(b) A safe.
(c) A dictionary.
(d) A clock.

3. What object catches the narrator's eye in Chapter 17 and causes her anxiety to grow during the search of her home?
(a) The refrigerator.
(b) The notepad.
(c) The novel.
(d) The rug.

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

5. When it snows on the island in Chapter 12, the narrator states that it has been at least how many years since snow has fallen there?
(a) 2.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action do R, the narrator, and the old man take "for a long time" (204) once they are reunited in R's hidden room at the end of Chapter 21?

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

3. What is the only sound that can be heard within the headquarters of the Memory Police, according to the narrator?

4. 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?

5. Which character eats and smiles less frequently after the search of the narrator's home by the Memory Police?

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

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

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

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

6. What special event do R, the narrator, and the old man decide to celebrate in R's room in Chapter 16?

7. Which of the novel's symbols is revisited again within Chapter 22, echoing its earlier appearance in Chapter 5?

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

9. What objects in the narrator's sink nearly result in disaster when the Memory Police see them in Chapter 17?

10. In what way do the narrator and R become more intimate over the course of his period of hiding?

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