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

2. What feat does Klara tell Simon will be the main event within her magic show?
(a) A mirror maze.
(b) A disappearing act.
(c) A ventriloquism act.
(d) The Jaws of Life.

3. 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?
(a) Varya.
(b) Gertie.
(c) The housekeeper.
(d) Eddie.

4. How does Klara acquire the jars of sweet potato baby food that she drops when she thinks she sees Eddie?
(a) She asks a stranger to buy them for her.
(b) She steals them from the grocery store.
(c) She pays for them using her last two dollars.
(d) She gets them from the food bank.

5. The narrator states that the timing of Klara's Jaws of Life trick must be "perfect or" (104) it will be what?
(a) Disastrous.
(b) Humiliating.
(c) Deadly.
(d) Chilling.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Mirage executives attend Klara's audition?

2. What is the title of the homemade flier Simon and his friends see taped to a window?

3. What tradition does Gertie refuse to partake in at Saul's funeral?

4. What answer does Ilya NOT provide when Klara wonders why there are so few female magicians?

5. When the executives at The Mirage offer Klara and Raj a contract, how long do they say the couple has before their first show?

(see the answer key)

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