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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. What knitted object does the unnamed narrator give to the old man in Chapter 5?
(a) A sweater.
(b) A scarf.
(c) A pair of gloves.
(d) A hat.

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

3. How many of the Memory Police's "dark green trucks with canvas covers in back" (20) are present at the raid in Chapter 4?
(a) 3.
(b) 13.
(c) 9.
(d) 23.

4. When the unnamed narrator hears tapping on the glass and finds Professor Inui and his family outside her home, the unnamed narrator recalls that the boy is how many years old?
(a) 12.
(b) 16.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many other things about R does the unnamed narrator know in addition to that fact that he works as an editor?

2. The unnamed narrator's home on the island is very close to what sort of body of water?

3. The unnamed narrator's mother and father had liked to meet at what location during their courtship?

4. What is NOT a business housed within the strip mall raided by the Memory Police in Chapter 4?

5. It is rumored that the Memory Police have recruited all people with what job to be informants for them?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Discuss an instance when Ogawa uses a metaphor or simile to describe R's ability to hold onto memories of disappeared objects.

6. What do the black garbage bags symbolize in Chapter 2?

7. What type of artist was the unnamed narrator's mother and why is this detail significant?

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

9. What is named as "the first duty of the Memory Police" (14)?

10. When the narrator makes her usual stop at the ornithology observatory in Chapter 3, what does she find there?

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