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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A crowd gathers on the banks of what body of water in Chapter 6 to watch the latest objects disappear?
(a) The lake.
(b) The bay.
(c) The river.
(d) The bog.

2. The old man declares that what weather had been helpful in getting R smuggled into the narrator's home?
(a) Rain.
(b) Snow.
(c) Wind.
(d) Sun.

3. Where is the hatch located that serves as the only way to get into R's hiding place in the home of the unnamed narrator?
(a) In the floor of the kitchen.
(b) In the ceiling of the basement.
(c) In the floor of the basement.
(d) In the floor of her late father's office.

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) The old man.
(c) Professor Inui.
(d) The ex-milliner.

5. When R sees his room, he murmurs that it is "like a" what "floating in the sky" (76)?
(a) Piano.
(b) Coffin.
(c) Cave.
(d) Canoe.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is revealed in Chapter 5 that the unnamed narrator's mother had received a letter from the Memory Police how many years back?

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

3. The narrator anxiously waits for R on the appointed Wednesday, knowing that it generally takes how many minutes to walk from the station to her house?

4. How often does the narrator down supplies to R so that he may bathe?

5. The unnamed narrator observes in Chapter 6 that her literary editor R is asking about what element of her life whenever he asks how she is doing?

(see the answer key)

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