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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Inuis' cat, whom the narrator claims could be easily identified by the Memory Police?
(a) Kiku.
(b) Mizore.
(c) Layla.
(d) Fumiko.

2. R comes over to the unnamed narrator's house in Chapter 8 for what reason?
(a) To warn her.
(b) To ask for asylum.
(c) To review her latest novel pages.
(d) To borrow a cup of sugar.

3. Which character is taken by the Memory Police in Chapter 13?
(a) Professor Inui.
(b) The ex-milliner.
(c) R.
(d) The old man.

4. When the Memory Police arrive unannounced at the unnamed narrator's home in Chapter 2, what action does she ask them to take, though she is ignored?
(a) She asks them to join her for breakfast.
(b) She asks them to wipe their feet.
(c) She asks them to put away their guns.
(d) She asks them to take off their boots.

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?
(a) When she brings him a bucket of water for bathing.
(b) When she collects his breakfast tray.
(c) When she collects his lunch tray.
(d) When she collects his dinner tray.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 15 begins with an excerpt from the narrator's novel about a protagonist with what job?

2. Who is NOT the subject of one of the novelist narrator's three books that she has published thus far?

3. What statement does the unnamed narrator make about the process of writing her new novel in Chapter 6?

4. The narrator begins to regret her trip to the Memory Police's headquarters when they present her with what object?

5. Who begs the narrator not to burn the photograph of her mother she keeps on the mantelpiece?

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