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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 action does Benny recommend that Simon take after watching him on Simon's first night working at the bar?
(a) He recommends that Simon grow a beard.
(b) He recommends that Simon take ballet lessons.
(c) He recommends that Simon take cooking lessons.
(d) He recommends that Simon get his driver's license.

2. What San Francisco district does Simon describe as feeling "like a fallout shelter" (79) amidst the unrest elsewhere in the world?
(a) The Tenderloin.
(b) The Castro.
(c) The Waterfront.
(d) The Financial District.

3. Who steps in and stops the policeman's harassment of Simon outside of the police station?
(a) Klara.
(b) Robert.
(c) Daniel.
(d) Gertie.

4. The Hindu family in the Gold family's building calls the fortune teller a "rishika" (5), which means a what?
(a) A seer.
(b) An imp.
(c) A spirit.
(d) A savant.

5. What is the name of the Gold siblings' paternal grandfather?
(a) Benjamin.
(b) Sid.
(c) Lev.
(d) Carl.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a policeman asks Simon to come to the San Francisco police station, what does he tell Simon is the purpose of his visit?

2. What type of business does Saul own?

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

4. Before Gertie met Saul, it is said by the narrator that she had wanted to be a what?

5. What phenomenon had Klara found magical as a child before finding out its true nature?

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