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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) 25.
(b) 30.
(c) 10.
(d) 60.

2. 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 take off their boots.
(b) She asks them to join her for breakfast.
(c) She asks them to put away their guns.
(d) She asks them to wipe their feet.

3. The unnamed narrator's mother and father had liked to meet at what location during their courtship?
(a) The rose garden.
(b) The willow tree.
(c) The museum.
(d) The hospital.

4. The unnamed narrator states that "it has been" how many "years since [the Memory Police] first appeared" (20)?
(a) 25.
(b) 20.
(c) 15.
(d) 10.

5. Who originally comes up with the idea for R to hide from the Memory Police in the unnamed narrator's home?
(a) The unnamed narrator.
(b) R.
(c) The old man.
(d) Professor Inui.

Short Answer Questions

1. In or on what piece of furniture did the unnamed narrator's keep her disappeared objects?

2. The unnamed narrator recalls that the disappeared objects in her palm had felt "like little" (5) what?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. In Chapter 9, the Memory Police are said to be "appearing more often in the streets" (64) riding in trucks painted what color?

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