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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: The Inquisition, Chapters 22-27 and Part Four: Chapters 28-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Even though Klara holds down two jobs as a receptionist and a restaurant hostess, she spends her weekends engaged in what activity?
(a) Scripting her magic show.
(b) Volunteering at the hospital.
(c) Working on her novel.
(d) Painting.

2. In addition to having long ago decided not to have children, what condition does Mira have that prevents her from having a child?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Endometriosis.
(c) Uterine cysts.
(d) Collapsed fallopian tubes.

3. Who knocks at the door of Klara's hotel suite when she is waiting for one knock from Simon that will tell her to commit suicide and to join him in the afterlife?
(a) Varya.
(b) The housekeeper.
(c) Eddie.
(d) Gertie.

4. What does the fortune teller tell Klara about the charts, calendars, fortune sticks and other paraphernalia in her apartment?
(a) They are only for show.
(b) She considers them evil.
(c) She would be lost without them.
(d) They help her impose order on the world.

5. 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) Beginnings.
(b) Transitions.
(c) Time.
(d) Fertility.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what physical reason does Ilya tell Klara that she must get as good at magic as men are and then get even better?

2. What does Daniel do for the first time after Gertie refuses to bury Klara in the family plot?

3. When Klara researches her grandmother Klara Kline, what is NOT one of the things she finds out?

4. When it begins to snow on the brief hike through Mohonk Preserve, Daniel expects Ruby to complain, but instead she does what?

5. What substance is Klara using a great deal of just prior to her suicide?

(see the answer key)

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