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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Emerald.
(b) Diamond.
(c) Sapphire.
(d) Ruby.

2. The narrator tells R in Chapter 10 that which character will meet him on Wednesday at 8 a.m. at Central Station?
(a) The ex-milliner.
(b) Professor Inui.
(c) The old man.
(d) Professor Inui's wife.

3. 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 art school.
(b) A university.
(c) A high school.
(d) An elementary school.

4. The remodeling of R's future home within the unnamed narrator's house takes how many days for the old man to finish?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

5. 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 cabinet.
(b) The bookcase.
(c) The desk.
(d) The Murphy bed.

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

7. A crowd gathers on the banks of what body of water in Chapter 6 to watch the latest objects disappear?
(a) The bog.
(b) The bay.
(c) The river.
(d) The lake.

8. Professor Inui tells the unnamed narrator in Chapter 5 that he and his family must move to what location in the morning?
(a) The genetic analysis center.
(b) The Memory Police barracks.
(c) The internment camp.
(d) The medical faculty office.

9. The narrator is perplexed by her new editor's question about what topic, since R had never posed the question to her?
(a) Whether she has ever been in love.
(b) When her next novel will be finished.
(c) What she would like to get paid.
(d) Her ideas for her next novel.

10. The unnamed narrator recalls her mother telling her that which type of stone had been inherited from the narrator's great-grandmother?
(a) An amethyst.
(b) A sapphire.
(c) An opal.
(d) An emerald.

11. 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 put away their guns.
(b) She asks them to wipe their feet.
(c) She asks them to join her for breakfast.
(d) She asks them to take off their boots.

12. The unnamed narrator remarks that her newest novel is about a woman who works as a what?
(a) A nurse.
(b) A typist.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A doctor.

13. What is NOT a reason that "no one ever attempts to cross" (8) the mountains to the north?
(a) Mountain-climbing gear was disappeared long ago.
(b) The mountainsides are rife with thorny trees and bushes.
(c) The tops of the mountains are always surrounded with mist.
(d) All maps of the island were disappeared long ago.

14. The unnamed narrator recalls that her mother had used what room in the house for her studio?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The basement.
(c) The sun room.
(d) The attic.

15. R comes over to the unnamed narrator's house in Chapter 8 for what reason?
(a) To borrow a cup of sugar.
(b) To ask for asylum.
(c) To warn her.
(d) To review her latest novel pages.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. The unnamed narrator states in Chapter 2 that she believes that she has a group of which family members "living in a village near the source of the far side of the mountains" (8)?

4. What object does the unnamed narrator drop while reacting to the young prisoner's fall onto the concrete?

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

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