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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. What is the name of the Inuis' cat, whom the narrator claims could be easily identified by the Memory Police?

2. From what location does the old man come to help the unnamed narrator prepare for the colder weather?

3. The unnamed narrator states that "it has been" how many "years since [the Memory Police] first appeared" (20)?

4. The unnamed narrator's favorite story of her mother's was the one about what object?

5. When R sees his room, he murmurs that it is "like a" what "floating in the sky" (76)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information is revealed in Chapter 5 about the narrator's mother and her interactions with the Memory Police?

2. 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?

3. At what sight do the narrator and the old man gaze during their discussion of the Memory Police in Chapter 7?

4. What do the black garbage bags symbolize in Chapter 2?

5. For what reason do the Memory Police visit the unnamed narrator in Chapter 2?

6. What objects are disappeared within Chapter 6 and what is different about the disppearances in this chapter?

7. How is the raid witnessed by the narrator in Chapter 4 different than all previous raids, according to the narrator?

8. What type of document is presented within the text for the first, but not the last, time in Chapter 6?

9. In Chapter 7, what claim does the old man make about the Memory Police while trying to reassure the narrator of her safety?

10. When the narrator makes her usual stop at the ornithology observatory in Chapter 3, what does she find there?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the themes of deception and secrecy function within The Memory Police and what is Ogawa’s message regarding these themes?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss Ogawa's treatment of truth, lies, and hypocrisy within the text of The Memory Police.

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