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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. How does Klara acquire the jars of sweet potato baby food that she drops when she thinks she sees Eddie?
(a) She pays for them using her last two dollars.
(b) She gets them from the food bank.
(c) She steals them from the grocery store.
(d) She asks a stranger to buy them for her.

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

3. How many floors are contained in the building where the Gold siblings seek out the fortune teller?
(a) Seven.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

4. In what type of venue does Klara NOT perform her act during her early days as a magician?
(a) A circus.
(b) Concert halls.
(c) Dinner theaters.
(d) Caesar's Palace.

5. Klara does not believe in the Jewish heaven because she considers it to be too what?
(a) Mysterious.
(b) Perfect.
(c) Sterile.
(d) Hopeless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the fortune teller tell Klara about the charts, calendars, fortune sticks and other paraphernalia in her apartment?

2. What is Mira's major in college when she and Daniel first meet?

3. With whom does Simon begin an affair after the two cruise the Castro together?

4. 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?

5. Just before Klara is hired by the Mirage executives, what object mysteriously appears in her hand to replace the rubber ball she had been holding?

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