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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Place of Life, Chapters 30-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the narrator finally reveals the date foretold to Daniel as the date of his death, what is it?
(a) October 2nd.
(b) July 31st.
(c) September 30th.
(d) November 24th.

2. To whom had the watch on Varya's windowsill originally belonged?
(a) Saul.
(b) Klara.
(c) Simon.
(d) Daniel.

3. Who asks Varya to run the primates study when Varya is 44 years old?
(a) The CEO of the Drake.
(b) Her former professor at Vassar.
(c) The director of the Drake.
(d) Her former professor at Columbia.

4. What does Gertie say to Simon on the phone just before she hangs up on him?
(a) She tells him that she will never forgive him for leaving her.
(b) She tells him not to return home to New York City.
(c) She tells him that he needs to take care of Klara.
(d) She tells him that she loves him.

5. What does Raj do for a living when Klara runs into him again after ten years?
(a) He is an auto mechanic.
(b) He is a waiter.
(c) He is a marine biologist.
(d) He is a heart surgeon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose shift does Simon cover when he "wakes up with a red dot on the white of his left eye"? (86)

2. What does Daniel do for the first time after Gertie refuses to bury Klara in the family plot?

3. Klara performs Raise Rise for the Mirage executives, a trick that the narrator describes as "one of the most difficult tricks Klara knows" (155). What kind of trick is Raise Rise?

4. What action does Luke ask Varya if she can take once she agrees to answer a few of his questions?

5. What tradition does Gertie refuse to partake in at Saul's funeral?

(see the answer key)

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