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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When it begins to snow on the brief hike through Mohonk Preserve, Daniel expects Ruby to complain, but instead she does what?
(a) She sings.
(b) She claps.
(c) She eats the falling snowflakes.
(d) She makes a snow angel.

2. What term does Ruby accidentally use when referring to Daniel that embarrasses everyone in the room?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Buddy.
(c) Stranger.
(d) Uncle.

3. When Klara becomes convinced that the knocks she hears are emanating from Simon's spirit, what emotion does she think he is feeling?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Anger.
(c) Peace.
(d) Affection.

4. 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) The way he had hated Klara when she experienced mood swings.
(c) The relationship between the fortune teller's prediction and Klara's death.
(d) His feelings of responsibility for Klara's death.

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

6. In what year does Eddie first starting going to see Klara perform her magic act?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1993.

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

8. Daniel becomes unnerved by the war reenactors in part because their determination to live in the past reminds him of whom?
(a) Simon.
(b) Saul.
(c) Gertie.
(d) Klara.

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

10. The narrator states that Daniel's resentment of Simon masks the deeper truth that Daniel is angry with himself for not taking what action?
(a) For not going to see Simon when he was dying of AIDS.
(b) For not pursuing his own goals after Saul's death.
(c) For not truly knowing Simon before his death.
(d) For not helping Klara when she needed him.

11. When Eddie finally agrees to tell Daniel the name of the fortune teller, her first name is Bruna. What is her last name?
(a) Rooney.
(b) Garland.
(c) Costello.
(d) Abbott.

12. 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.

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

14. In addition to having long ago decided not to have children, what condition does Mira have that prevents her from having a child?
(a) Collapsed fallopian tubes.
(b) Diabetes.
(c) Uterine cysts.
(d) Endometriosis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Once on the road, Klara begins to look back with what emotion at her small shows in San Francisco?

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

3. What substance is Klara using a great deal of just prior to her suicide?

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

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

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