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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 reason does Raj provide when he tells Klara that she cannot call her family?
(a) They cannot afford long-distance phone calls.
(b) He says that it will only make Klara sad.
(c) He says that Ruby will find out.
(d) They should not be fraternizing with thieves.

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

3. What does Klara tell the Mirage executives is "not enough to explain what we don't understand" (157)?
(a) Religion
(b) Reality.
(c) Society.
(d) Mythology.

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

5. Who is the only person who knows that Simon died of AIDS on the date the fortune teller foretold?
(a) Daniel.
(b) Gertie.
(c) Klara.
(d) Simon.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Eddie finally agrees to tell Daniel the name of the fortune teller, her first name is Bruna. What is her last name?

2. What is Mira's major in college when she and Daniel first meet?

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

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Raj's reaction to Klara's comments about the final trick in her magic audition and what does it reveal about his character?

2. How is the theme of secrecy depicted in the passage when the narrator reveals that "Klara has kept two things from her siblings" (141)?

3. Klara believes that magic is the only element that can reveal how inadequate one other element of life truly is. What is that element?

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

5. What mysterious feat does Klara perform at the audition without knowing how she has done it?

6. What information does Eddie reveal to Daniel when they meet at the bar 14 years after their earlier meeting there?

7. What detail does Daniel choose to tell Ruby when she asks him to tell her one interesting thing about her grandfather Saul?

8. What kinds of information does Daniel find out about Ruby and Raj when he researches them online the night of their arrival for the Thanksgiving holiday?

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

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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