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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many years before the narrative present did the unnamed narrator's nurse die of a heart attack, as revealed in Chapter 2?
2. The narrator is perplexed by her new editor's question about what topic, since R had never posed the question to her?
3. R comes over to the unnamed narrator's house in Chapter 8 for what reason?
4. When the unnamed narrator hears tapping on the glass and finds Professor Inui and his family outside her home, the unnamed narrator recalls that the boy is how many years old?
5. In what location does the narrator tell R that she has found a hiding place for him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the old man do with the page of the old ferry log on which he and the narrator have written their plans for hiding R?
2. Discuss an instance when Ogawa uses a metaphor or simile to demonstrate the desolation that begins to characterize the island after many disappearances.
3. What type of routine do the narrator and R fall into once R gets settled in his room in Chapter 11?
4. When the narrator makes her usual stop at the ornithology observatory in Chapter 3, what does she find there?
5. For what reason does R at first reject the narrator's offer of help in Chapter 10?
6. Explain the first line of the novel, which states, "I sometimes wonder what was disappeared first---among all the things that have vanished from the island" (3).
7. What type of artist was the unnamed narrator's mother and why is this detail significant?
8. When an excerpt of the novel about the typist is provided at the start of Chapter 8, what has the protagonist lost?
9. What particular aspect of the birds' disappearance bothers the narrator the most?
10. What objects are disappeared within Chapter 6 and what is different about the disppearances in this chapter?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Ogawa's purpose for juxtaposing at least two different time periods in a particular way within the text of The Memory Police.
Essay Topic 2
How is the topic of surveillance treated within The Memory Police and how does its treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that discusses the symbolism of the cover art chosen for The Memory Police.
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