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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: You'd Dance, Kid, Chapters 7-9 and Part Two: Proteus, Chapters 10-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name does Ruby's mother call her?
(a) Ruble.
(b) Ruberia.
(c) Rubina.
(d) Rube.

2. Whose shift does Simon cover when he "wakes up with a red dot on the white of his left eye"? (86)
(a) Tommy.
(b) Daniel.
(c) Richie.
(d) Robert.

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) An intellectual.
(d) A housewife.

4. What do the Gold siblings bring to the fortune teller as payment for her services?
(a) A sand dollar.
(b) Money.
(c) Their mother's set of tarot cards.
(d) A dead rat.

5. What years are covered in Part One, Chapter One, when Simon's story is focused upon?
(a) 1980-1986.
(b) 1975-1977.
(c) 1969-1979.
(d) 1978-1982.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feat does Klara tell Simon will be the main event within her magic show?

2. What excuse does Simon use when Gertie catches him leaving the apartment on the morning of the day he moves to San Francisco?

3. How old does Raj say he was when he came from India to the United States?

4. How old is Daniel when his father Saul dies of heart failure?

5. What item does Klara place upon each table on the night of her performance at the Cabaret theater called the Committee?

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