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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. Who originally comes up with the idea for R to hide from the Memory Police in the unnamed narrator's home?
2. The old man attempts to reassure the unnamed narrator by telling her in Chapter 7, "Those Memory Police are only after people who aren't able to" (54) take which action?
3. How often does the narrator down supplies to R so that he may bathe?
4. Who is NOT the subject of one of the novelist narrator's three books that she has published thus far?
5. Once R and the narrator fall into a predictable daily routine, what is the only time she lingers in R's room to chat?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the symbolism of the cabinet the unnamed narrator describes in relation to her mother in Chapter 1?
2. In Chapter 7, what claim does the old man make about the Memory Police while trying to reassure the narrator of her safety?
3. Discuss an instance when Ogawa uses a metaphor or simile to describe R's ability to hold onto memories of disappeared objects.
4. What is named as "the first duty of the Memory Police" (14)?
5. What do the black garbage bags symbolize in Chapter 2?
6. What type of document is presented within the text for the first, but not the last, time in Chapter 6?
7. What particular aspect of the birds' disappearance bothers the narrator the most?
8. 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).
9. What does the pair of light blue gloves symbolize, from the narrator's perspective?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze Ogawa's novel from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and why?
Essay Topic 2
Trace the characterization arc of the unnamed narrator over the course of the novel The Memory Police. Discuss whether the unnamed narrator is a round or flat character and whether she is a static or dynamic character.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Ogawa's treatment of truth, lies, and hypocrisy within the text of The Memory Police.
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