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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Daniel say he is doing when Simon asks?
(a) He is in medical school.
(b) He is managing Saul's dressmaking business.
(c) He is in culinary school.
(d) He is staying at home to care for his children.

2. 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 an auto mechanic.
(c) He is a waiter.
(d) He is a marine biologist.

3. Who spends the night with Simon in Ward 86 once he is diagnosed with the illness that will come to be known as AIDS?
(a) Robert and Klara.
(b) Klara and Gertie.
(c) Varya and Klara.
(d) Daniel and 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) Humiliating.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Disastrous.
(d) Chilling.

5. In what year does the novel's prologue begin?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1969.

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

7. What is the address of the Gold family's apartment?
(a) 72 Clinton.
(b) 33 Knickerbocker.
(c) 48 Forsyth.
(d) 64 Broadway.

8. Who steps in and stops the policeman's harassment of Simon outside of the police station?
(a) Klara.
(b) Gertie.
(c) Robert.
(d) Daniel.

9. How old is Daniel when his father Saul dies of heart failure?
(a) 30.
(b) 16.
(c) 20.
(d) 26.

10. From what college does Gertie withdraw when she becomes pregnant with Saul's child at age 20?
(a) Stanford University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) New York University.
(d) Brown University.

11. What book does Klara buy at the magic shop after gleaning more information about the fortune teller?
(a) A book of Wiccan spells.
(b) A book of card trick instructions.
(c) The Torah.
(d) The Book of Divination.

12. What is NOT named among Simon's "earliest memories of Ward 86" (87)?
(a) The shocked looks on the young patients' faces.
(b) The squeak of meal carts.
(c) The calm voices of the nurses.
(d) Robert's terrified eyes.

13. What words does Klara whisper to her audience at the conclusion of every show?
(a) Look around you often.
(b) Right this way.
(c) Thanks for your kindness.
(d) I love you all.

14. Simon remembers that he had drawn which same-suit cards from the deck during his encounter with the fortune teller?
(a) Four diamonds.
(b) Four hearts.
(c) Four spades.
(d) Four clubs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Simon recalls that the fortune teller had never asked for what item?

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

3. Where is Klara performing when Simon sees her act for the first time?

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

5. What do Klara and Varya find inside the lacquered box in Gertie's lingerie drawer?

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