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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the narrator is no longer able to write novels, what does she type out over and over again?
(a) Vowels.
(b) Prayers.
(c) Consonants.
(d) Profanities.

2. When it snows on the island in Chapter 12, the narrator states that it has been at least how many years since snow has fallen there?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

3. How many other things about R does the unnamed narrator know in addition to that fact that he works as an editor?
(a) 0.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

4. The narrator tells R in Chapter 10 that which character will meet him on Wednesday at 8 a.m. at Central Station?
(a) Professor Inui's wife.
(b) Professor Inui.
(c) The old man.
(d) The ex-milliner.

5. Which character's birthday is celebrated in Chapter 16?
(a) The narrator's.
(b) The old man's.
(c) R's.
(d) Professor Inui's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who initiates the first kiss between the narrator and R at the end of Chapter 17?

2. In what locations do the narrator and R sit during their meetings about the narrator's newest novel?

3. The remodeling of R's future home within the unnamed narrator's house takes how many days for the old man to finish?

4. How many officers appear on either side of the narrator in Chapter 13 and hurry her into the elevator before guiding her "through a maze of corridors and into a room at the heart of the building" (103)?

5. Which character is taken by the Memory Police in Chapter 13?

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