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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Just before Klara is hired by the Mirage executives, what object mysteriously appears in her hand to replace the rubber ball she had been holding?
(a) A coin.
(b) A strawberry.
(c) A key.
(d) An apple.

2. Who is the only person who knows that Simon died of AIDS on the date the fortune teller foretold?
(a) Simon.
(b) Daniel.
(c) Klara.
(d) Gertie.

3. Including Klara, how many people does Eddie say have both committed suicide and had received a reading from the fortune teller?
(a) Five.
(b) Ten.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

4. How does Klara acquire the jars of sweet potato baby food that she drops when she thinks she sees Eddie?
(a) She asks a stranger to buy them for her.
(b) She steals them from the grocery store.
(c) She gets them from the food bank.
(d) She pays for them using her last two dollars.

5. 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 disappearing act.
(b) An optical illusion using mirrors.
(c) A card trick.
(d) A daredevil act.

6. 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.

7. On the morning of Raj and Ruby's departure from Daniel's house, what information does Eddie call Daniel to tell him?
(a) That he has discovered five more suicides connected to the fortune teller.
(b) That the fortune teller has escaped from police custody.
(c) That the fortune teller has been cleared of all charges.
(d) That he had been in love with Klara prior to her death.

8. Daniel discovers through online research that Ruby is considered "the youngest" (216) what in Las Vegas?
(a) Magician.
(b) Acrobat.
(c) Millionaire.
(d) Illusionist.

9. How far away from the Las Vegas Strip is the RV park called King's Row?
(a) 45 minutes.
(b) 5 minutes.
(c) 30 minutes.
(d) 15 minutes.

10. Once on the road, Klara begins to look back with what emotion at her small shows in San Francisco?
(a) Nostalgia.
(b) Tenderness.
(c) Awe.
(d) Revulsion.

11. What answer does Ilya NOT provide when Klara wonders why there are so few female magicians?
(a) The Reformation.
(b) The Suffrage Movement.
(c) The Inquisition.
(d) The Salem Witch Trials.

12. What reason does Raj provide when he tells Klara that she cannot call her family?
(a) He says that it will only make Klara sad.
(b) They should not be fraternizing with thieves.
(c) He says that Ruby will find out.
(d) They cannot afford long-distance phone calls.

13. Who buys a drink for Daniel when he stumbles into a bar on Geary Street the afternoon of Klara's memorial service?
(a) Varya.
(b) Eddie.
(c) The bartender.
(d) Mira.

14. When does Klara die, in relation to the fortune teller's prediction of her death date?
(a) Klara dies the day after the fortune teller had predicted.
(b) Klara dies on the day the fortune teller had predicted.
(c) Klara dies one year to the day after the day the fortune teller had predicted.
(d) Klara dies the day before the fortune teller had predicted.

15. What does Daniel insist to Raj that Klara had tried to do with her magic?
(a) To make people laugh.
(b) To reveal some greater truth.
(c) To make money doing something she loved.
(d) To distract people from their problems.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Daniel does not want Mira to equate him with his sister Klara. What is NOT one element he names as a trait of Klara's that he does not want associated with himself?

3. When Mira tells Daniel that people need God for the the same reason they need art, what is the reason she states?

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

5. What term does Ruby accidentally use when referring to Daniel that embarrasses everyone in the room?

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