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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. 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) An optical illusion using mirrors.
(c) A disappearing act.
(d) A daredevil act.

2. When Klara becomes convinced that the knocks she hears are emanating from Simon's spirit, what emotion does she think he is feeling?
(a) Anger.
(b) Affection.
(c) Peace.
(d) Anxiety.

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) Gertie.
(b) Eddie.
(c) The housekeeper.
(d) Varya.

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

5. Where does Raj plan to send Klara's body for burial before Gertie forbids it?
(a) To the Dominican Republic.
(b) To Queens.
(c) To Staten Island.
(d) To Newport.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Raj provide when he tells Klara that she cannot call her family?

2. What is NOT one way in which Simon describes his father Saul?

3. In addition to having long ago decided not to have children, what condition does Mira have that prevents her from having a child?

4. When Eddie asks to meet with Daniel fifteen years after Klara's death, what does Daniel assume is the reason?

5. What is the newest hotel on the Las Vegas strip when Klara, Raj, and Ruby arrive to pursue a residency?

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