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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. 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 giddiness.
(c) Klara's lack of reason.
(d) Klara's eccentricity.

2. When does Klara die, in relation to the fortune teller's prediction of her death date?
(a) Klara dies the day before the fortune teller had predicted.
(b) Klara dies on the day the fortune teller had predicted.
(c) Klara dies one year to the day after the day the fortune teller had predicted.
(d) Klara dies the day after the fortune teller had predicted.

3. What is the newest hotel on the Las Vegas strip when Klara, Raj, and Ruby arrive to pursue a residency?
(a) The Mirage.
(b) The Cosmopolitan.
(c) The Tropicana.
(d) The MGM Grand.

4. What does Daniel insist to Raj that Klara had tried to do with her magic?
(a) To make people laugh.
(b) To distract people from their problems.
(c) To make money doing something she loved.
(d) To reveal some greater truth.

5. After what event does Daniel stop praying entirely?
(a) Varya's wedding.
(b) Simon's death.
(c) Saul's death.
(d) Klara's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the family celebrating when Klara calls on her opening night?

2. What fact about Saul does Daniel share with Ruby when she asks for something cool about Saul?

3. How far away from the Las Vegas Strip is the RV park called King's Row?

4. When Eddie asks to meet with Daniel fifteen years after Klara's death, what does Daniel assume is the reason?

5. Daniel discovers through online research that Ruby is considered "the youngest" (216) what in Las Vegas?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the secret of Klara's success with the men who are auditioning her for a spot opening for Sigfried and Roy?

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

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

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

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

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 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?

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

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