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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) What she would like to get paid.
(c) Her ideas for her next novel.
(d) When her next novel will be finished.

3. The unnamed narrator states that "it has been" how many "years since [the Memory Police] first appeared" (20)?
(a) 15.
(b) 20.
(c) 25.
(d) 10.

4. In Chapter 9, the Memory Police are said to be "appearing more often in the streets" (64) riding in trucks painted what color?
(a) Dark green.
(b) Red.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Black.

5. Which season is said to have "deepened" (64) on the island by the time Chapter 9 begins?
(a) Summer.
(b) Winter.
(c) Autumn.
(d) Spring.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the Inuis' cat, whom the narrator claims could be easily identified by the Memory Police?

3. When the unnamed narrator used to take a particular meal to her father's observatory as an excuse to spend time with him there, what meal did she always bring?

4. How many days does it take for the body of water used for disappearing to return to normal?

5. The unnamed narrator recalls that her mother had used what room in the house for her studio?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss an instance when Ogawa uses a metaphor or simile to demonstrate the desolation that begins to characterize the island after many disappearances.

2. Who raps on the narrator's basement window in Chapter 4 and for what purpose?

3. In Chapter 7, what claim does the old man make about the Memory Police while trying to reassure the narrator of her safety?

4. What type of routine do the narrator and R fall into once R gets settled in his room in Chapter 11?

5. What type of document is presented within the text for the first, but not the last, time in Chapter 6?

6. At what sight do the narrator and the old man gaze during their discussion of the Memory Police in Chapter 7?

7. What does the old man do with the page of the old ferry log on which he and the narrator have written their plans for hiding R?

8. What objects are disappeared within Chapter 6 and what is different about the disppearances in this chapter?

9. Once R agrees to accept the narrator's offer to hide him, what instructions does she give him?

10. For what reason does R at first reject the narrator's offer of help in Chapter 10?

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