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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. What do the Gold siblings bring to the fortune teller as payment for her services?
(a) A dead rat.
(b) Money.
(c) Their mother's set of tarot cards.
(d) A sand dollar.

2. What do Klara and Varya find inside the lacquered box in Gertie's lingerie drawer?
(a) Photographs of their paternal uncle.
(b) Photographs of their maternal grandmother.
(c) Photographs of their second cousins.
(d) Photographs of Gertie's former beaus.

3. What does Klara do with the lacquered box once Gertie appears furious at its absence?
(a) She buries it in a vacant lot.
(b) She hides it in the attic.
(c) She sneaks it back into her mother's drawer.
(d) She burns it.

4. At what location do Raj and Klara scavenge for wood to build Klara's magician's cabinet?
(a) In the Haight district.
(b) The bookstore called A Clean and Well-lit Place.
(c) Fisherman's Wharf.
(d) Ghiradelli Square.

5. How long after Simon's death is AIDS given its official name?
(a) Six months.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Three days.
(d) Three months.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the novel's prologue begin?

2. To whom does adult Daniel bear a resemblance, according to Klara?

3. The title of the novel refers to what aspect of its plot?

4. Simon remembers that he had drawn which same-suit cards from the deck during his encounter with the fortune teller?

5. What date does the narrator finally reveal as the one foretold to Simon by the fortune teller?

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