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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 tradition does Gertie refuse to partake in at Saul's funeral?
(a) She refuses to give the eulogy.
(b) She refuses to slit her clothes above her heart.
(c) She refuses to greet the pallbearers.
(d) She refuses to kiss Saul one more time.

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

3. When a policeman asks Simon to come to the San Francisco police station, what does he tell Simon is the purpose of his visit?
(a) He refuses to tell Simon anything about its purpose.
(b) He tells Simon that he needs to file for legal emancipation.
(c) He tells Simon that he is suspected of vehicular manslaughter.
(d) He tells Simon that he is under suspicion for two recent robberies.

4. What reason does Klara state for not calling the family to notify them of Simon's illness?
(a) She did not want to worry Gertie.
(b) It was not her right.
(c) Simon had begged her not to.
(d) She had not known the depth of Simon's illness.

5. What date does the narrator finally reveal as the one foretold to Simon by the fortune teller?
(a) June 21st.
(b) February 19th.
(c) March 5th.
(d) December 20th.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phenomenon had Klara found magical as a child before finding out its true nature?

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

3. What is the title of the homemade flier Simon and his friends see taped to a window?

4. What does Raj do for a living when Klara runs into him again after ten years?

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

(see the answer key)

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