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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what year does Eddie first starting going to see Klara perform her magic act?
2. How does Klara acquire the jars of sweet potato baby food that she drops when she thinks she sees Eddie?
3. What is the name of the Costello family's own church?
4. What emotion does Daniel feel when he sees the album of family photos in Ruby's hands?
5. Klara performs Raise Rise for the Mirage executives, a trick that the narrator describes as "one of the most difficult tricks Klara knows" (155). What kind of trick is Raise Rise?
Short Essay Questions
1. What changes does Daniel hear in Simon's voice when Simon calls to tell Daniel that he is sick?
2. What problem does Klara develop after SImon's death?
3. Klara believes that magic is the only element that can reveal how inadequate one other element of life truly is. What is that element?
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 reasons does Klara give for hating to perform magic in casinos?
6. What is the only method Daniel finds that will allow him to contemplate the deaths of his siblings?
7. How are sensory details used by the author to depict the scene when Daniel awakes first on the morning of Thanksgiving?
8. For what reason is Daniel startled when Ruby asks if he has any pictures of Klara?
9. Why does Daniel refrain from answering Ruby when she asks him why he is not at work over the Thanksgiving holiday?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the author's messages about guilt and responsibility within the novel The Immortalists.
Essay Topic 2
Look carefully at the passages of the novel that describe the close relationship between Klara and Simon. What is the author's purpose for discussing at length the nature of these two siblings' connection?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the author's choice to tell the story of The Immortalists using the third-person omniscient point of view. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what is the author's intended effect on the reader?
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