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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 asks to see which room of the unnamed narrator's home in Chapter 8?
(a) The attic.
(b) The laundry room.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) The basement.

2. How many days does it take for the body of water used for disappearing to return to normal?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 30.

3. The unnamed narrator's home on the island is very close to what sort of body of water?
(a) A bog.
(b) A lake.
(c) A river.
(d) A bay.

4. The narrator tells R in Chapter 11, "I suspect the only reason I've been able to go on writing is that I've had your" what "by my side all along" (82)?
(a) Heart.
(b) Brilliance.
(c) Shadow.
(d) Guidance.

5. How many people do the Memory Police take away in the back of one of their trucks after the raid at the strip mall in Chapter 4?
(a) 16.
(b) 4.
(c) 32.
(d) 73.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. The old man tells the unnamed narrator in Chapter 7 that he has lived on the island how much longer than she has?

5. The narrator is perplexed by her new editor's question about what topic, since R had never posed the question to her?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. When an excerpt of the novel about the typist is provided at the start of Chapter 8, what has the protagonist lost?

7. What does the pair of light blue gloves symbolize, from the narrator's perspective?

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

9. What particular aspect of the birds' disappearance bothers the narrator the most?

10. What information is revealed in Chapter 5 about the narrator's mother and her interactions with the Memory Police?

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