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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The old man attempts to reassure the unnamed narrator by telling her in Chapter 7, "Those Memory Police are only after people who aren't able to" (54) take which action?
(a) Forget.
(b) Obey.
(c) Remember.
(d) Surrender.

2. What rare weather occurs in Chapter 21?
(a) Snow.
(b) Hail.
(c) Sleet.
(d) Lightning.

3. How does the narrator explain the presence of a pile of dirty dishes in her sink in Chapter 17?
(a) She says that all of her guests had just left.
(b) She says that she had been feeling lazy.
(c) She says that she had run out of dish soap.
(d) She says that she freezes meals.

4. It is rumored that the Memory Police have recruited all people with what job to be informants for them?
(a) Carpenter.
(b) Electrician.
(c) Bricklayer.
(d) Plumber.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 15 begins with an excerpt from the narrator's novel about a protagonist with what job?

2. Chapter 2 describes in detail the narrator's reaction to which creatures being disappeared from the island?

3. What two items does the narrator try to leave for the old man when she visits the headquarters of the Memory Police in Chapter 13?

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

5. Over time, the narrator finds that to keep R at his best, "the morning agenda" needs "to be as" what "as possible" (93)?

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