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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: The Inquisition, Chapters 22-27 and Part Four: Chapters 28-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many Mirage executives attend Klara's audition?
(a) Eight.
(b) Ten.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Three.

2. In addition to having long ago decided not to have children, what condition does Mira have that prevents her from having a child?
(a) Endometriosis.
(b) Collapsed fallopian tubes.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Uterine cysts.

3. What does Daniel insist to Raj that Klara had tried to do with her magic?
(a) To make money doing something she loved.
(b) To reveal some greater truth.
(c) To distract people from their problems.
(d) To make people laugh.

4. In contrast to her brothers' bar mitzvahs, Klara's bat mitzvah takes place not individually but in a group of how many girls?
(a) 6.
(b) 10.
(c) 3.
(d) 7.

5. What does Daniel say he is doing when Simon asks?
(a) He is managing Saul's dressmaking business.
(b) He is in culinary school.
(c) He is staying at home to care for his children.
(d) He is in medical school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phenomenon had Klara found magical as a child before finding out its true nature?

2. Daniel becomes unnerved by the war reenactors in part because their determination to live in the past reminds him of whom?

3. What is the title of the homemade flier Simon and his friends see taped to a window?

4. When Daniel tells Eddie that Klara had been "different" (209), what is NOT one characteristic he mentions as evidence of Klara's eccentricity?

5. What date does the narrator finally reveal as the one foretold to Simon by the fortune teller?

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