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

2. Where does Raj plan to send Klara's body for burial before Gertie forbids it?
(a) To Newport.
(b) To the Dominican Republic.
(c) To Queens.
(d) To Staten Island.

3. What does Raj buy for Ruby on her thirteenth birthday?
(a) A Shetland pony.
(b) A convertible.
(c) A German Shepherd.
(d) An apartment.

4. When Klara sees the statue of Janus's head, it reminds her of the fortune teller. What is NOT an element over which the deity of Janus is said to preside?
(a) Transitions.
(b) Beginnings.
(c) Time.
(d) Fertility.

5. 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) $5 million.
(b) $200 million.
(c) $16 million.
(d) $50 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Raj, Klara, and Ruby get around to all of the different stops on their tour when they first begin touring?

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

3. What does Klara tell the Mirage executives is "not enough to explain what we don't understand" (157)?

4. What does the fortune teller tell Klara about the charts, calendars, fortune sticks and other paraphernalia in her apartment?

5. Who is the only person who knows that Simon died of AIDS on the date the fortune teller foretold?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Just before Raj convinces Klara to pursue a residency in Las Vegas for her magic act, what is meant by the narrator's statement that "Klara has always known she's meant to be a bridge" (146)?

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

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

7. Why does Klara initially take the elevator to the 45th floor of the Mirage after dropping Ruby off at day care on opening night?

8. 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)?

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

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

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