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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 job does Gertie take after dropping out of college?
(a) Receptionist at a law firm.
(b) Cook at a restaurant.
(c) Typist at a medical office.
(d) Teller at a bank.

2. Before Gertie met Saul, it is said by the narrator that she had wanted to be a what?
(a) A housewife.
(b) An intellectual.
(c) A ballerina.
(d) A pilot.

3. How old is Daniel when his father Saul dies of heart failure?
(a) 26.
(b) 20.
(c) 30.
(d) 16.

4. The narrator states that the timing of Klara's Jaws of Life trick must be "perfect or" (104) it will be what?
(a) Humiliating.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Chilling.
(d) Disastrous.

5. On what street in New York City do the Gold siblings seek the fortune teller?
(a) Clinton Street.
(b) Hester Street.
(c) Delancey Street.
(d) Forsyth Street.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the Gold children reach the fortune teller's door, Varya is surprised because she had thought that magic would be what?

3. What date does the narrator finally reveal as the one foretold to Simon by the fortune teller?

4. In contrast to her brothers' bar mitzvahs, Klara's bat mitzvah takes place not individually but in a group of how many girls?

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

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