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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: Proteus, Chapters 15-19 and Part Three: The Inquisition, Chapters 20-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Simon remembers that he had drawn which same-suit cards from the deck during his encounter with the fortune teller?
(a) Four clubs.
(b) Four spades.
(c) Four hearts.
(d) Four diamonds.

2. In what year does the novel's prologue begin?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1982.

3. To whom does adult Daniel bear a resemblance, according to Klara?
(a) Their sister Varya.
(b) Their grandfather Otto.
(c) His brother Simon.
(d) Their father Saul.

4. 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) Eddie.
(c) Gertie.
(d) The housekeeper.

5. Who spends the night with Simon in Ward 86 once he is diagnosed with the illness that will come to be known as AIDS?
(a) Varya and Klara.
(b) Robert and Klara.
(c) Daniel and Varya.
(d) Klara and Gertie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Just before Klara is hired by the Mirage executives, what object mysteriously appears in her hand to replace the rubber ball she had been holding?

2. What is the significance of Klara's choice of rope when she enacts her suicide?

3. What excuse does Simon use when Gertie catches him leaving the apartment on the morning of the day he moves to San Francisco?

4. When the Gold children reach the fortune teller's door, Varya is surprised because she had thought that magic would be what?

5. What reason does Klara state for not calling the family to notify them of Simon's illness?

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