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

2. 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.

3. What does Raj do for a living when Klara runs into him again after ten years?
(a) He is a heart surgeon.
(b) He is a waiter.
(c) He is a marine biologist.
(d) He is an auto mechanic.

4. The title of the novel refers to what aspect of its plot?
(a) The Immortalists is the name of Varya's antique shop.
(b) The Immortalist is the name of Klara's act.
(c) Saul used to call thunder clouds The Immortalists.
(d) Simon uses the term to refer to Klara's recklessness.

5. What phenomenon had Klara found magical as a child before finding out its true nature?
(a) Red tide.
(b) Acid rain.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Aurora Borealis.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What name does Ruby's mother call her?

3. Whom does Gertie coddle the most out of all of her children?

4. Who steps in and stops the policeman's harassment of Simon outside of the police station?

5. To whom does adult Daniel bear a resemblance, according to Klara?

(see the answer key)

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