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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 objects are still within the drawers of the cabinet when R asks about them in Chapter 8?
2. 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?
3. How many people do the Memory Police take away in the back of one of their trucks after the raid at the strip mall in Chapter 4?
4. How many years before the narrative present did the unnamed narrator's nurse die of a heart attack, as revealed in Chapter 2?
5. Who is NOT the subject of one of the novelist narrator's three books that she has published thus far?
Short Essay Questions
1. At what sight do the narrator and the old man gaze during their discussion of the Memory Police in Chapter 7?
2. Who raps on the narrator's basement window in Chapter 4 and for what purpose?
3. When an excerpt of the novel about the typist is provided at the start of Chapter 8, what has the protagonist lost?
4. 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).
5. What do the black garbage bags symbolize in Chapter 2?
6. Once R agrees to accept the narrator's offer to hide him, what instructions does she give him?
7. What type of artist was the unnamed narrator's mother and why is this detail significant?
8. Discuss an instance when Ogawa uses a metaphor or simile to describe R's ability to hold onto memories of disappeared objects.
9. What type of routine do the narrator and R fall into once R gets settled in his room in Chapter 11?
10. Discuss an instance when Ogawa uses a metaphor or simile to demonstrate the desolation that begins to characterize the island after many disappearances.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Perform a biographical criticism of The Memory Police by researching Ogawa's life and work. Be sure to create a strong and specific claim focused on this particular book and then support that claim with quotes from the book and from your research of Ogawa.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze the ways in which the themes of eccentricity and conformity appear within Ogawa’s novel The Memory Police. What message is Ogawa sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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