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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. Before Gertie met Saul, it is said by the narrator that she had wanted to be a what?
(a) An intellectual.
(b) A housewife.
(c) A pilot.
(d) A ballerina.

2. What is the one thing Simon tells Daniel when he calls him for the first time since leaving home?
(a) He is sick.
(b) The date foretold to him as the date of his death.
(c) He misses Daniel.
(d) He loves Gertie.

3. Who is the oldest sibling in the Gold family?
(a) Simon.
(b) Klara.
(c) Daniel.
(d) Varya.

4. How old is Varya upon the opening of the novel's prologue?
(a) 16.
(b) 13.
(c) 10.
(d) 8.

5. At what location do Raj and Klara scavenge for wood to build Klara's magician's cabinet?
(a) In the Haight district.
(b) Ghiradelli Square.
(c) The bookstore called A Clean and Well-lit Place.
(d) Fisherman's Wharf.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Klara researches her grandmother Klara Kline, what is NOT one of the things she finds out?

2. Who knocks at the door of Klara's hotel suite when she is waiting for one knock from Simon that will tell her to commit suicide and to join him in the afterlife?

3. What years are covered in Part One, Chapter One, when Simon's story is focused upon?

4. What San Francisco district does Simon describe as feeling "like a fallout shelter" (79) amidst the unrest elsewhere in the world?

5. Simon remembers that he had drawn which same-suit cards from the deck during his encounter with the fortune teller?

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