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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 couple next door is taken away by the Memory Police, what kind of pet do they leave behind?
(a) A fish.
(b) A snake.
(c) A cat.
(d) A dog.

2. How many times is the trap door to R's room opened during the ex-milliner and his wife's stay?
(a) 0.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

4. What objects are disappeared in Chapter 15?
(a) Pianos.
(b) Calendars.
(c) Clocks.
(d) Cars.

5. Chapter 18 begins with an excerpt of the narrator's novel about which protagonist?
(a) The ballerina.
(b) The chef.
(c) The novelist.
(d) The typist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action does the narrator say that "R always" takes "now" (191) in Chapter 20?

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

4. What position does the narrator take within the company when she gets a new job in Chapter 20?

5. What word is used to describe the sound made by a particular object at the end of Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Which character does the narrator NOT consult about her decision to investigate the old man's disappearance and why?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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