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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 substance is Klara using a great deal of just prior to her suicide?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Pain medication.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) Barbiturates.

2. What does Eddie NOT list among the work done by the Romani men?
(a) Selling used cars.
(b) Laying pavement.
(c) Telling fortunes.
(d) Doing auto body work.

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

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

5. In what year does Eddie first starting going to see Klara perform her magic act?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1973.

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to avoid losing the job at The Mirage, what unwanted action does Klara accept?

2. When Raj does not want the family to pay rent in an RV park, where do they park?

3. 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?

4. What two words does Ruby utter when she is small that are said to turn "Klara's heart to goop" (161)?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Daniel's death occur?

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

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

4. 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)?

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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