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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) 10.
(b) 25.
(c) 30.
(d) 60.

2. 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 ceiling of the basement.
(b) In the floor of her late father's office.
(c) In the floor of the basement.
(d) In the floor of the kitchen.

3. At the end of Chapter 1, the unnamed narrator recalls asking her mother, "Why are you the only one who hasn't" (7) taken what action?
(a) Lost anything.
(b) Called the Memory Police.
(c) Thrown anything away.
(d) Forgotten anything.

4. The narrator's new editor tells the narrator that R had left an empty desk, except for her novel, when he suddenly took what action?
(a) Moved away.
(b) Disappeared.
(c) Quit.
(d) Got fired.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The unnamed narrator of The Memory Police states in Chapter 1 that her mother had been what type of artist?

3. R tells the unnamed narrator at the end of Chapter 8 that he has not taken what action?

4. What is NOT a reason that "no one ever attempts to cross" (8) the mountains to the north?

5. On the day the narrator tells R that she has found a place for him to hide, he tells her that his wife is due to give birth in how many months?

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