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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT one way in which Simon describes his father Saul?
(a) Timid.
(b) Decorous.
(c) A man who skirts conflict.
(d) Courageous.

2. Klara does not believe in the Jewish heaven because she considers it to be too what?
(a) Sterile.
(b) Perfect.
(c) Hopeless.
(d) Mysterious.

3. In contrast to her brothers' bar mitzvahs, Klara's bat mitzvah takes place not individually but in a group of how many girls?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 7.
(d) 10.

4. What is the name of the policeman who roughs up Simon outside of the police station?
(a) Brian.
(b) Marty.
(c) Jeffrey.
(d) Eddie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Daniel tells his siblings that the fortune teller is rumored to be able to tell a person what information?

2. Who steps in and stops the policeman's harassment of Simon outside of the police station?

3. What feat does Klara tell Simon will be the main event within her magic show?

4. What is the one thing Simon tells Daniel when he calls him for the first time since leaving home?

5. Even though Klara holds down two jobs as a receptionist and a restaurant hostess, she spends her weekends engaged in what activity?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Klara's feelings about the phenomenon of red tide?

2. What is the symbolism of the sequins that turn up everywhere inside Klara's home?

3. How is repetition employed within the opening passage of Part Two:Proteus and to what effect?

4. What do the Gold children bring to the fortune teller as payment for her services and why?

5. What aspects of Robert's character are depicted as those that make him "stand out" (59) to Simon?

6. What differences between Robert and Simon does the author depict as those that drive Simon to cheat on Robert?

7. Who is the first of the Gold siblings to hear about the fortune teller and what action does this sibling then take?

8. What is the author's purpose for using the allusion to The Statue of Liberty when depicting the children's grandfather Lev?

9. What is Robert's reaction to the AIDS epidemic and how does it differ from Simon's?

10. When the narrator reveals that Raj has "big plans" (113) for overhauling Klara's act, what kind of changes does the narrator depict?

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