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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. What does Simon NOT count among the events that occurred directly as a result of the fortune teller's intervention?
(a) His relationship with Robert.
(b) His dance career.
(c) His deep connection with Klara.
(d) His arrival in San Francisco.

2. Including Klara, how many people does Eddie say have both committed suicide and had received a reading from the fortune teller?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Ten.
(d) One.

3. When Daniel tells Eddie that Klara had been "different" (209), what is NOT one characteristic he mentions as evidence of Klara's eccentricity?
(a) Susceptibility.
(b) Instability.
(c) Solemnity.
(d) Vulnerability.

4. What does Eddie NOT list among the work done by the Romani men?
(a) Laying pavement.
(b) Doing auto body work.
(c) Selling used cars.
(d) Telling fortunes.

5. To whom does adult Daniel bear a resemblance, according to Klara?
(a) His brother Simon.
(b) Their grandfather Otto.
(c) Their father Saul.
(d) Their sister Varya.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is NOT named among Simon's "earliest memories of Ward 86" (87)?

3. When Klara refuses the Mirage's entertainment director's suggestion that she let Raj saw her in half, her real reason has to do with feminist ideals rather than what other reason said to be believed by the entertainment director?

4. What does Raj do for a living when Klara runs into him again after ten years?

5. Even though Klara holds down two jobs as a receptionist and a restaurant hostess, she spends her weekends engaged in what activity?

(see the answer key)

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