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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. 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) Next to a roller skating rink.
(c) Behind a boarded-up Burger King.
(d) In front of a public park.

2. 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(a) She considers the trick outdated.
(b) The trick is too challenging for her.
(c) She is afraid of the trick.
(d) The trick is too gory for her taste.

3. How many hours early do Raj and Ruby appear for Thanksgiving dinner at Daniel's house?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

4. What is NOT a piece of advice Klara sternly gives herself as she waits in the wings for her audition at The Mirage to begin?
(a) Imagine the audience in their underwear.
(b) Shake out your hands.
(c) Smile.
(d) Swallow.

5. How many members of the Costello family does Eddie say are running a fortune-telling fraud ring?
(a) 18.
(b) 4.
(c) 12.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. For what physical reason does Ilya tell Klara that she must get as good at magic as men are and then get even better?

3. The narrator states that Daniel's resentment of Simon masks the deeper truth that Daniel is angry with himself for not taking what action?

4. When Klara becomes convinced that the knocks she hears are emanating from Simon's spirit, what emotion does she think he is feeling?

5. Klara tells the Mirage executives that it takes what element to reveal how inadequate reality is?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is foreshadowing employed within the passage when Raj tells Klara, "I know they're your family...but if they weren't, you wouldn't like them either" (147)?

2. What action does Daniel decide to take because he sees it as his only way to make an impact on future events?

3. What are the main two emotions Daniel has when thinking about Simon and which emotion does he prefer?

4. What reasons does the narrator give for Daniel's decision not to tell Mira about his and his siblings' childhood encounter with the fortune teller?

5. Why does Daniel refrain from answering Ruby when she asks him why he is not at work over the Thanksgiving holiday?

6. What changes does Daniel hear in Simon's voice when Simon calls to tell Daniel that he is sick?

7. What problem does Klara develop after SImon's death?

8. What is the only method Daniel finds that will allow him to contemplate the deaths of his siblings?

9. How are sensory details used by the author to depict the scene when Daniel awakes first on the morning of Thanksgiving?

10. What is the real reason that Klara refuses the Mirage's entertainment director when he asks her to participate in an act where she will be sawed in half?

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