This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: The Inquisition, Chapters 22-27 and Part Four: Chapters 28-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Daniel do for the first time after Gertie refuses to bury Klara in the family plot?
(a) Screams at Gertie in a rage.
(b) Feels hatred for Gertie.
(c) Blames Gertie for Klara's death.
(d) Hits Gertie.

2. What is the significance of Klara's choice of rope when she enacts her suicide?
(a) It is the frayed piece of rope her brother Simon had always used as a belt.
(b) It is the length of rope her father Saul always used to tether his boat to the dock.
(c) It is part of a set of reins belonging to her favorite horse.
(d) It is the first rope she ever used for her Jaws of Life act.

3. What two words does Ruby utter when she is small that are said to turn "Klara's heart to goop" (161)?
(a) Mama now.
(b) Come me.
(c) My daddy.
(d) I cry.

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

5. Klara performs Raise Rise for the Mirage executives, a trick that the narrator describes as "one of the most difficult tricks Klara knows" (155). What kind of trick is Raise Rise?
(a) A card trick.
(b) A daredevil act.
(c) An optical illusion using mirrors.
(d) A disappearing act.