View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: You'd Dance, Kid, Chapters 7-9 and Part Two: Proteus, Chapters 10-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Gertie coddle the most out of all of her children?
(a) Klara.
(b) Daniel.
(c) Simon.
(d) Varya.

2. 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) Daniel and Varya.
(c) Robert and Klara.
(d) Klara and Gertie.

3. When Simon is promoted from understudy to another position within the ballet company, what position does he achieve?
(a) Repertory member.
(b) Featured member.
(c) Full company member.
(d) Company captain.

4. What phenomenon had Klara found magical as a child before finding out its true nature?
(a) Red tide.
(b) Electricity.
(c) Acid rain.
(d) Aurora Borealis.

5. What is Klara's reply when Raj asks her the secret of her Jaws of Life performance?
(a) Give the rope a tweak at the last minute.
(b) Just hold on.
(c) Pray.
(d) Count to ten before letting go.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does Klara place upon each table on the night of her performance at the Cabaret theater called the Committee?

2. In contrast to her brothers' bar mitzvahs, Klara's bat mitzvah takes place not individually but in a group of how many girls?

3. What does Raj do for a living when Klara runs into him again after ten years?

4. In what type of venue does Klara NOT perform her act during her early days as a magician?

5. What is NOT listed among the American events the Gold children are excluded from due to their youth?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 280 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample