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

2. Who spends the night with Simon in Ward 86 once he is diagnosed with the illness that will come to be known as AIDS?
(a) Robert and Klara.
(b) Klara and Gertie.
(c) Varya and Klara.
(d) Daniel and Varya.

3. How long after Simon's death is AIDS given its official name?
(a) Three months.
(b) Three days.
(c) Six months.
(d) Three weeks.

4. Even though Klara holds down two jobs as a receptionist and a restaurant hostess, she spends her weekends engaged in what activity?
(a) Painting.
(b) Volunteering at the hospital.
(c) Working on her novel.
(d) Scripting her magic show.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What years are covered in Part One, Chapter One, when Simon's story is focused upon?

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

3. At what location do Raj and Klara scavenge for wood to build Klara's magician's cabinet?

4. Gali tells the members of his ballet company often that their "movements must have" (85) what?

5. Where is Klara performing when Simon sees her act for the first time?

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