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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eddie explains that the Costello family's scam begins with the sale of what object to a target?
(a) An apple.
(b) A knife.
(c) A cup of tea.
(d) A candle.

2. What is the significance of Klara's choice of rope when she enacts her suicide?
(a) It is part of a set of reins belonging to her favorite horse.
(b) It is the first rope she ever used for her Jaws of Life act.
(c) It is the length of rope her father Saul always used to tether his boat to the dock.
(d) It is the frayed piece of rope her brother Simon had always used as a belt.

3. 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?
(a) Klara's illness.
(b) Klara's eccentricity.
(c) Klara's giddiness.
(d) Klara's lack of reason.

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

5. What type of alcohol does Klara prefer for its "clarity and smarting punch" (141) once she returns to drinking after Ruby's birth?
(a) Rum.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Tequila.
(d) Gin.

6. 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) Peace.
(d) Anger.

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

8. For what physical reason does Ilya tell Klara that she must get as good at magic as men are and then get even better?
(a) She has a high voice.
(b) She sees the emotions behind the illusions.
(c) She is short.
(d) Her hands are small.

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

10. When Eddie asks to meet with Daniel fifteen years after Klara's death, what does Daniel assume is the reason?
(a) Eddie wants to talk about Ruby.
(b) Eddie is going to inquire about a job.
(c) There has been a break in Klara's case.
(d) Eddie wants to apologize for his candor the night of Klara's memorial service.

11. When the executives at The Mirage offer Klara and Raj a contract, how long do they say the couple has before their first show?
(a) Four months.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Six months.
(d) Five days.

12. What does the fortune teller tell Klara about the charts, calendars, fortune sticks and other paraphernalia in her apartment?
(a) She would be lost without them.
(b) They are only for show.
(c) They help her impose order on the world.
(d) She considers them evil.

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

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

15. When Klara sees the statue of Janus's head, it reminds her of the fortune teller. What is NOT an element over which the deity of Janus is said to preside?
(a) Transitions.
(b) Fertility.
(c) Beginnings.
(d) Time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the newest hotel on the Las Vegas strip when Klara, Raj, and Ruby arrive to pursue a residency?

2. How does Klara acquire the jars of sweet potato baby food that she drops when she thinks she sees Eddie?

3. What answer does Ilya NOT provide when Klara wonders why there are so few female magicians?

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

5. 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?

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