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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 tells R in Chapter 11, "I suspect the only reason I've been able to go on writing is that I've had your" what "by my side all along" (82)?
(a) Shadow.
(b) Brilliance.
(c) Guidance.
(d) Heart.

2. The unnamed narrator recalls that whenever she sat on her father's lap in the observatory, she always restrained herself from asking him if he knew about the existence of the items in which piece of furniture?
(a) The desk.
(b) The cabinet.
(c) The Murphy bed.
(d) The bookcase.

3. In or on what piece of furniture did the unnamed narrator's keep her disappeared objects?
(a) A desk.
(b) A drafting table.
(c) A bookcase.
(d) A cabinet.

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 take off their boots.
(c) She asks them to put away their guns.
(d) She asks them to wipe their feet.

5. On what sort of seat did the unnamed narrator used to sit as a child in her mother's studio?
(a) A swing.
(b) A hassock.
(c) A bench.
(d) A stool.

Short Answer Questions

1. When R hears the unnamed narrator's description of the one object she remembers her mother showing to her, R identifies it as which stone?

2. How many objects are still within the drawers of the cabinet when R asks about them in Chapter 8?

3. R comes over to the unnamed narrator's house in Chapter 8 for what reason?

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

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

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