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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is NOT listed among the American events the Gold children are excluded from due to their youth?
(a) Reading Helter Skelter.
(b) Joining the Stonewall riots.
(c) Attending Woodstock.
(d) Watching Midnight Cowboy.

3. For how long has Klara been performing her magic act when she runs into Raj again?
(a) Two years.
(b) Six months.
(c) Three years.
(d) Six years.

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

5. Daniel tells his siblings that the fortune teller is rumored to be able to tell a person what information?
(a) The description of a person's future spouse's face.
(b) The number of children a person will have.
(c) The day a person will die.
(d) The joys that will happen in a person's life.

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

7. When Simon is promoted from understudy to another position within the ballet company, what position does he achieve?
(a) Repertory member.
(b) Full company member.
(c) Featured member.
(d) Company captain.

8. Gali tells the members of his ballet company often that their "movements must have" (85) what?
(a) Luminescence.
(b) Grace.
(c) Integrity.
(d) Structure.

9. What is the name of the policeman who roughs up Simon outside of the police station?
(a) Jeffrey.
(b) Marty.
(c) Eddie.
(d) Brian.

10. The Hindu family in the Gold family's building calls the fortune teller a "rishika" (5), which means a what?
(a) A spirit.
(b) A savant.
(c) An imp.
(d) A seer.

11. 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) Klara and Gertie.
(b) Robert and Klara.
(c) Daniel and Varya.
(d) Varya and Klara.

12. 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.

13. What date does the narrator finally reveal as the one foretold to Simon by the fortune teller?
(a) December 20th.
(b) June 21st.
(c) February 19th.
(d) March 5th.

14. What reason does Klara state for not calling the family to notify them of Simon's illness?
(a) She did not want to worry Gertie.
(b) Simon had begged her not to.
(c) She had not known the depth of Simon's illness.
(d) It was not her right.

15. What does Gertie say to Simon on the phone just before she hangs up on him?
(a) She tells him not to return home to New York City.
(b) She tells him that she will never forgive him for leaving her.
(c) She tells him that she loves him.
(d) She tells him that he needs to take care of Klara.

Short Answer Questions

1. Klara does not believe in the Jewish heaven because she considers it to be too what?

2. Simon remembers that he had drawn which same-suit cards from the deck during his encounter with the fortune teller?

3. From what college does Gertie withdraw when she becomes pregnant with Saul's child at age 20?

4. What is the name of the Gold siblings' paternal grandfather?

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

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