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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) 4.
(b) 16.
(c) 32.
(d) 73.

2. 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) Got fired.
(b) Moved away.
(c) Disappeared.
(d) Quit.

3. 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.

4. At what type of abandoned school is the wooden box where R's wife and the old man exchange messages for R on days that end in zeros?
(a) An elementary school.
(b) A high school.
(c) A university.
(d) An art school.

5. 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) Forgotten anything.
(d) Thrown anything away.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is revealed in Chapter 13 that the narrator keeps her end of the communication device behind what object in her desk?

2. What kind of scientist was the unnamed narrator's father prior to his death?

3. The unnamed narrator's favorite story of her mother's was the one about what object?

4. In the opening line of Chapter 5, the unnamed narrator states that which season passes "quickly" (27)?

5. For what reason do the ex-milliner and his wife ask to stay overnight in the narrator's home?

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