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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 is the significance of Klara's choice of rope when she enacts her suicide?
(a) It is the first rope she ever used for her Jaws of Life act.
(b) It is the length of rope her father Saul always used to tether his boat to the dock.
(c) It is the frayed piece of rope her brother Simon had always used as a belt.
(d) It is part of a set of reins belonging to her favorite horse.

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

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

4. How do Raj, Klara, and Ruby get around to all of the different stops on their tour when they first begin touring?
(a) Their manager drives them in a tour bus.
(b) They buy a motorhome.
(c) They take trains.
(d) They drive Raj's Ford pickup truck.

5. Including Klara, how many people does Eddie say have both committed suicide and had received a reading from the fortune teller?
(a) One.
(b) Five.
(c) Ten.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Raj provide when he tells Klara that she cannot call her family?

2. What does Eddie NOT list among the work done by the Romani men?

3. When the executives at The Mirage offer Klara and Raj a contract, how long do they say the couple has before their first show?

4. What does the marquee say at the hotel on the night of Klara's suicide?

5. Klara tells the Mirage executives that it takes what element to reveal how inadequate reality is?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. What reasons does the narrator give for Daniel's decision not to tell Mira about his and his siblings' childhood encounter with the fortune teller?

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

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

7. 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?

8. 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)?

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

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

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