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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. Daniel tells his siblings that the fortune teller is rumored to be able to tell a person what information?
(a) The description of a person's future spouse's face.
(b) The number of children a person will have.
(c) The joys that will happen in a person's life.
(d) The day a person will die.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of business does Saul own?

2. At what location do Raj and Klara scavenge for wood to build Klara's magician's cabinet?

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

4. What San Francisco district does Simon describe as feeling "like a fallout shelter" (79) amidst the unrest elsewhere in the world?

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

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