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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. In what year does the novel's prologue begin?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1978.

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

3. How old does Raj say he was when he came from India to the United States?
(a) 18.
(b) 14.
(c) 6.
(d) 10.

4. What San Francisco district does Simon describe as feeling "like a fallout shelter" (79) amidst the unrest elsewhere in the world?
(a) The Castro.
(b) The Tenderloin.
(c) The Financial District.
(d) The Waterfront.

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 heart surgeon.
(d) He is a marine biologist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT listed among the American events the Gold children are excluded from due to their youth?

2. When a policeman asks Simon to come to the San Francisco police station, what does he tell Simon is the purpose of his visit?

3. Klara does not believe in the Jewish heaven because she considers it to be too what?

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

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

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