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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many Mirage executives attend Klara's audition?
(a) Eight.
(b) Ten.
(c) Three.
(d) Fifteen.

2. Where does Raj plan to send Klara's body for burial before Gertie forbids it?
(a) To Staten Island.
(b) To Queens.
(c) To Newport.
(d) To the Dominican Republic.

3. What does Daniel reveal to Eddie that he says he has not even told to Mira?
(a) His decision to name his first daughter Klara.
(b) His feelings of responsibility for Klara's death.
(c) The relationship between the fortune teller's prediction and Klara's death.
(d) The way he had hated Klara when she experienced mood swings.

4. What does Daniel do for the first time after Gertie refuses to bury Klara in the family plot?
(a) Hits Gertie.
(b) Feels hatred for Gertie.
(c) Blames Gertie for Klara's death.
(d) Screams at Gertie in a rage.

5. When Daniel tells Eddie that Klara had been "different" (209), what is NOT one characteristic he mentions as evidence of Klara's eccentricity?
(a) Susceptibility.
(b) Vulnerability.
(c) Instability.
(d) Solemnity.

6. What is the name of the Costello family's own church?
(a) The Chosen.
(b) The Hare Krishnas.
(c) The Church of the Free Spirit.
(d) The Children of God.

7. 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) Anxiety.
(c) Anger.
(d) Peace.

8. 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 key.
(b) A coin.
(c) A strawberry.
(d) An apple.

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

10. When Raj does not want the family to pay rent in an RV park, where do they park?
(a) Next to a roller skating rink.
(b) Behind a boarded-up Burger King.
(c) In front of a public park.
(d) In a Walmart parking lot.

11. Once hired at The Mirage, Klara and Raj open for which act?
(a) Siegfried and Roy.
(b) Cher.
(c) Wayne Newton.
(d) Penn and Teller.

12. When Klara refuses the Mirage's entertainment director's suggestion that she let Raj saw her in half, her real reason has to do with feminist ideals rather than what other reason said to be believed by the entertainment director?
(a) She is afraid of the trick.
(b) The trick is too gory for her taste.
(c) The trick is too challenging for her.
(d) She considers the trick outdated.

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

14. With whom does Klara speak on the phone after sneaking into a hotel suite on her opening night?
(a) Varya.
(b) Eddie.
(c) Gertie.
(d) Daniel.

15. 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 gets them from the food bank.
(c) She steals them from the grocery store.
(d) She pays for them using her last two dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eddie NOT list among the work done by the Romani men?

2. What two words does Ruby utter when she is small that are said to turn "Klara's heart to goop" (161)?

3. Ruby becomes upset when Daniel tells her that her mother "didn't want to be a real" (232) what?

4. At the height of their argument, Raj tells Daniel that Klara may have killed herself, but she had still exhibited more of what quality than Daniel does?

5. When the narrator finally reveals the date foretold to Daniel as the date of his death, what is it?

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