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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. The title of the novel refers to what aspect of its plot?
(a) The Immortalists is the name of Varya's antique shop.
(b) Saul used to call thunder clouds The Immortalists.
(c) The Immortalist is the name of Klara's act.
(d) Simon uses the term to refer to Klara's recklessness.

2. From what college does Gertie withdraw when she becomes pregnant with Saul's child at age 20?
(a) New York University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Brown University.
(d) Stanford University.

3. How old is Daniel when his father Saul dies of heart failure?
(a) 16.
(b) 26.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

4. Gali tells the members of his ballet company often that their "movements must have" (85) what?
(a) Structure.
(b) Luminescence.
(c) Grace.
(d) Integrity.

5. In what month do the Gold siblings visit the fortune teller?
(a) March.
(b) July.
(c) August.
(d) December.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Varya upon the opening of the novel's prologue?

2. Whom does Gertie coddle the most out of all of her children?

3. Where is Klara performing when Simon sees her act for the first time?

4. In what year does Simon move out of the Collingswood apartment he shares with Klara?

5. When Simon is promoted from understudy to another position within the ballet company, what position does he achieve?

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