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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 newest hotel on the Las Vegas strip when Klara, Raj, and Ruby arrive to pursue a residency?
(a) The Tropicana.
(b) The Mirage.
(c) The MGM Grand.
(d) The Cosmopolitan.

2. The narrator states that Daniel's resentment of Simon masks the deeper truth that Daniel is angry with himself for not taking what action?
(a) For not pursuing his own goals after Saul's death.
(b) For not truly knowing Simon before his death.
(c) For not helping Klara when she needed him.
(d) For not going to see Simon when he was dying of AIDS.

3. How old is Varya upon the opening of the novel's prologue?
(a) 13.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 16.

4. At what location do Raj and Klara scavenge for wood to build Klara's magician's cabinet?
(a) Ghiradelli Square.
(b) The bookstore called A Clean and Well-lit Place.
(c) In the Haight district.
(d) Fisherman's Wharf.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Daniel tells his siblings that the fortune teller is rumored to be able to tell a person what information?

2. Who knocks at the door of Klara's hotel suite when she is waiting for one knock from Simon that will tell her to commit suicide and to join him in the afterlife?

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

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

5. Including Klara, how many people does Eddie say have both committed suicide and had received a reading from the fortune teller?

(see the answer key)

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