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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 date does the narrator finally reveal as the one foretold to Simon by the fortune teller?
(a) March 5th.
(b) June 21st.
(c) December 20th.
(d) February 19th.

2. What book does Klara buy at the magic shop after gleaning more information about the fortune teller?
(a) A book of card trick instructions.
(b) The Torah.
(c) The Book of Divination.
(d) A book of Wiccan spells.

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

4. What does Klara do with the lacquered box once Gertie appears furious at its absence?
(a) She burns it.
(b) She hides it in the attic.
(c) She sneaks it back into her mother's drawer.
(d) She buries it in a vacant lot.

5. Who spends the night with Simon in Ward 86 once he is diagnosed with the illness that will come to be known as AIDS?
(a) Varya and Klara.
(b) Klara and Gertie.
(c) Robert and Klara.
(d) Daniel and Varya.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When Simon is promoted from understudy to another position within the ballet company, what position does he achieve?

4. Simon recalls that the fortune teller had never asked for what item?

5. What is the one thing Simon tells Daniel when he calls him for the first time since leaving home?

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