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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Proteus, Chapters 15-19 and Part Three: The Inquisition, Chapters 20-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the significance of Klara's choice of rope when she enacts her suicide?
(a) It is the frayed piece of rope her brother Simon had always used as a belt.
(b) It is part of a set of reins belonging to her favorite horse.
(c) It is the length of rope her father Saul always used to tether his boat to the dock.
(d) It is the first rope she ever used for her Jaws of Life act.

2. Who spends the night with Simon in Ward 86 once he is diagnosed with the illness that will come to be known as AIDS?
(a) Robert and Klara.
(b) Klara and Gertie.
(c) Varya and Klara.
(d) Daniel and Varya.

3. What phenomenon had Klara found magical as a child before finding out its true nature?
(a) Acid rain.
(b) Red tide.
(c) Aurora Borealis.
(d) Electricity.

4. How long after Simon's death is AIDS given its official name?
(a) Three days.
(b) Six months.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) Three months.

5. What does Klara tell the Mirage executives is "not enough to explain what we don't understand" (157)?
(a) Religion
(b) Society.
(c) Reality.
(d) Mythology.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Mirage executives attend Klara's audition?

2. What is the one thing Simon tells Daniel when he calls him for the first time since leaving home?

3. When Klara sees the statue of Janus's head, it reminds her of the fortune teller. What is NOT an element over which the deity of Janus is said to preside?

4. What is the name of the Gold siblings' paternal grandfather?

5. What do Klara and Varya find inside the lacquered box in Gertie's lingerie drawer?

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