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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator doing in Chapter 24 when she sees the old man sitting down and staring at a particular object?
(a) Running an errand for her boss.
(b) Heading to the library.
(c) Taking her dog for a walk.
(d) Going to Memory Police headquarters.

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

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?
(a) Money and food.
(b) Soap and a towel.
(c) Tea and spices.
(d) Clothing and food.

4. When the couple next door is taken away by the Memory Police, what kind of pet do they leave behind?
(a) A fish.
(b) A snake.
(c) A dog.
(d) A cat.

5. What objects take up "every available space" (102) in the headquarters of the Memory Police?
(a) Mirrors.
(b) Guns.
(c) Pennants.
(d) Knives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the sole element left of the narrator by the end of the novel?

2. On what sort of seat did the unnamed narrator used to sit as a child in her mother's studio?

3. How many years before the narrative present did the unnamed narrator's nurse die of a heart attack, as revealed in Chapter 2?

4. When R sees his room, he murmurs that it is "like a" what "floating in the sky" (76)?

5. For how many hours do the narrator and the old man gather hidden sculptures at the cabin in Chapter 23?

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