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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 is NOT listed among the American events the Gold children are excluded from due to their youth?
(a) Watching Midnight Cowboy.
(b) Joining the Stonewall riots.
(c) Reading Helter Skelter.
(d) Attending Woodstock.

2. When Simon is promoted from understudy to another position within the ballet company, what position does he achieve?
(a) Repertory member.
(b) Featured member.
(c) Company captain.
(d) Full company member.

3. Gali tells the members of his ballet company often that their "movements must have" (85) what?
(a) Grace.
(b) Luminescence.
(c) Integrity.
(d) Structure.

4. What tradition does Gertie refuse to partake in at Saul's funeral?
(a) She refuses to greet the pallbearers.
(b) She refuses to give the eulogy.
(c) She refuses to kiss Saul one more time.
(d) She refuses to slit her clothes above her heart.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Gertie take after dropping out of college?

2. How old is Varya upon the opening of the novel's prologue?

3. In what type of venue does Klara NOT perform her act during her early days as a magician?

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

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

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