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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. How does Klara acquire the jars of sweet potato baby food that she drops when she thinks she sees Eddie?
(a) She steals them from the grocery store.
(b) She asks a stranger to buy them for her.
(c) She pays for them using her last two dollars.
(d) She gets them from the food bank.

2. When Daniel concedes that the fortune teller had indeed been correct about Klara's date of death, he adds that the phenomenon had only happened due to what reason?
(a) Due to a lack of prayer.
(b) Due to Klara's belief in its truth.
(c) Due to coincidence.
(d) Due to Gertie's constant anxiety.

3. Eddie says that when the FBI had finished their investigation of the Costello family, they had found the family to be worth how much money?
(a) $50 million.
(b) $5 million.
(c) $200 million.
(d) $16 million.

4. What fact about Saul does Daniel share with Ruby when she asks for something cool about Saul?
(a) His affinity for animals.
(b) His obsession with pickles.
(c) His love of pasta.
(d) His collection of model trains.

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) Gin.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Rum.
(d) Tequila.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Raj buy for Ruby on her thirteenth birthday?

2. With whom does Klara speak on the phone after sneaking into a hotel suite on her opening night?

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

4. 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?

5. On what floor of the hotel does Klara stop the elevator on opening night?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. For what reason is Daniel startled when Ruby asks if he has any pictures of Klara?

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

4. For what reason does Gertie refuse to allow Klara to be buried in the family plot and which family member has the strongest reaction to her decision?

5. 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?

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

7. 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)?

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

9. What reasons does Klara give for hating to perform magic in casinos?

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

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