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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. Whom does Gertie coddle the most out of all of her children?
(a) Daniel.
(b) Simon.
(c) Varya.
(d) Klara.

2. What item does Klara place upon each table on the night of her performance at the Cabaret theater called the Committee?
(a) A rope.
(b) A business card.
(c) A handkerchief.
(d) A glass of water.

3. Who is the youngest sibling in the Gold family?
(a) Simon.
(b) Varya.
(c) Daniel.
(d) Klara.

4. What excuse does Simon use when Gertie catches him leaving the apartment on the morning of the day he moves to San Francisco?
(a) He says that he is going to get a sandwich.
(b) He says that he has to feed the parking meter.
(c) He says that he is going to buy Klara a birthday card.
(d) He says that he is going to meet his boyfriend.

5. What is the address of the Gold family's apartment?
(a) 48 Forsyth.
(b) 33 Knickerbocker.
(c) 64 Broadway.
(d) 72 Clinton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before Gertie met Saul, it is said by the narrator that she had wanted to be a what?

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?

3. In what month do the Gold siblings visit the fortune teller?

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

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

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