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

2. What is NOT one way in which Simon describes his father Saul?
(a) A man who skirts conflict.
(b) Decorous.
(c) Courageous.
(d) Timid.

3. When the Gold children reach the fortune teller's door, Varya is surprised because she had thought that magic would be what?
(a) Detectable.
(b) Magnetic.
(c) Luminescent.
(d) Tangible.

4. Klara does not believe in the Jewish heaven because she considers it to be too what?
(a) Hopeless.
(b) Sterile.
(c) Perfect.
(d) Mysterious.

5. When Klara researches her grandmother Klara Kline, what is NOT one of the things she finds out?
(a) She never married.
(b) She got her start in vaudeville.
(c) She was a daredevil for a living.
(d) She was Jewish.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the oldest sibling in the Gold family?

3. What does Daniel say he is doing when Simon asks?

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

5. What name does Ruby's mother call her?

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