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

2. When Klara sees the statue of Janus's head, it reminds her of the fortune teller. What is NOT an element over which the deity of Janus is said to preside?
(a) Beginnings.
(b) Time.
(c) Transitions.
(d) Fertility.

3. What term does Ruby accidentally use when referring to Daniel that embarrasses everyone in the room?
(a) Buddy.
(b) Uncle.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Stranger.

4. What type of alcohol does Klara prefer for its "clarity and smarting punch" (141) once she returns to drinking after Ruby's birth?
(a) Vodka.
(b) Tequila.
(c) Rum.
(d) Gin.

5. Eddie says that when the FBI had finished their investigation of the Costello family, they had found the family to be worth how much money?
(a) $200 million.
(b) $50 million.
(c) $16 million.
(d) $5 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. Once hired at The Mirage, Klara and Raj open for which act?

2. In what year does the novel's prologue begin?

3. What excuse does Simon use when Gertie catches him leaving the apartment on the morning of the day he moves to San Francisco?

4. What does Daniel insist to Raj that Klara had tried to do with her magic?

5. What requirement does Klara have for the nightclubs at which she will perform?

(see the answer key)

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