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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 substance is Klara using a great deal of just prior to her suicide?
(a) Pain medication.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Barbiturates.
(d) Cocaine.

2. What words does Klara whisper to her audience at the conclusion of every show?
(a) I love you all.
(b) Right this way.
(c) Thanks for your kindness.
(d) Look around you often.

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

4. How old does Raj say he was when he came from India to the United States?
(a) 10.
(b) 14.
(c) 18.
(d) 6.

5. What is NOT named among Simon's "earliest memories of Ward 86" (87)?
(a) The calm voices of the nurses.
(b) The squeak of meal carts.
(c) The shocked looks on the young patients' faces.
(d) Robert's terrified eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. After what event does Daniel stop praying entirely?

2. What type of business does Saul own?

3. When the Gold children reach the fortune teller's door, Varya is surprised because she had thought that magic would be what?

4. What is NOT one way in which Simon describes his father Saul?

5. 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?

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