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

3. How long after Simon's death is AIDS given its official name?
(a) Six months.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Three days.
(d) Three months.

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

5. 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) Disastrous.
(c) Deadly.
(d) Chilling.

6. How many floors are contained in the building where the Gold siblings seek out the fortune teller?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Seven.

7. What job does Gertie take after dropping out of college?
(a) Cook at a restaurant.
(b) Receptionist at a law firm.
(c) Teller at a bank.
(d) Typist at a medical office.

8. On what day of the week does Saul's funeral take place?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Thursday.
(d) Tuesday.

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

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

11. In what year does Simon move out of the Collingswood apartment he shares with Klara?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1985.

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

13. What years are covered in Part One, Chapter One, when Simon's story is focused upon?
(a) 1978-1982.
(b) 1975-1977.
(c) 1969-1979.
(d) 1980-1986.

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

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