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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. Which objects are disappeared in Chapter 12 almost immediately after all photographs are disappeared?
(a) Insects of all sorts.
(b) Vegetables of all sorts.
(c) Animals of all sorts.
(d) Fruit of all sorts.

2. What word is used to describe the sound made by a particular object at the end of Chapter 16?
(a) Resonant.
(b) Loud.
(c) Shrill.
(d) Soft.

3. How does the narrator explain the presence of a pile of dirty dishes in her sink in Chapter 17?
(a) She says that she freezes meals.
(b) She says that she had run out of dish soap.
(c) She says that all of her guests had just left.
(d) She says that she had been feeling lazy.

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

5. Which object's disappearance is named by the narrator to have been "the first time a disappearance seemed like a solemn ceremony" (192)?
(a) The diamond.
(b) The hairbrush.
(c) The novel.
(d) The umbrella.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 12 begins with what type of feature?

2. The music box featured in Chapter 16 has "four small legs resembling" what type of animal's "paws" (143)?

3. Before the narrator visits the headquarters of the Memory Police in Chapter 13, she tells R, "I suppose all I can do is" (100) take what action?

4. What is the first natural disaster to happen in Chapter 21?

5. In what location is a birthday party held in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. What alarming event happens to the old man in Chapter 13?

2. What illogical conclusion does the narrator come to about R after their first sexual encounter, though she knows quite well how illogical it is?

3. How does the theme of courage arise within Chapter 13 of The Memory Police?

4. Which character does the narrator NOT consult about her decision to investigate the old man's disappearance and why?

5. What objects in the narrator's sink nearly result in disaster when the Memory Police see them in Chapter 17?

6. Which objects are disappeared in Chapter 19 and in what way does the disappearance personally affect the narrator?

7. In what way do the narrator and R become more intimate over the course of his period of hiding?

8. In what way is the theme of altruism demonstrated in Chapter 21 when an earthquake rocks the island?

9. In what way is the motif of sound used to inspire feelings of horror and suspense in the reader at the end of Chapter 16?

10. One morning in Chapter 15, the narrator wakes up to find that what objects have been disappeared?

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