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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 is the address of the Gold family's apartment?
(a) 33 Knickerbocker.
(b) 64 Broadway.
(c) 48 Forsyth.
(d) 72 Clinton.

2. How many floors are contained in the building where the Gold siblings seek out the fortune teller?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Seven.

3. Before Gertie met Saul, it is said by the narrator that she had wanted to be a what?
(a) An intellectual.
(b) A ballerina.
(c) A housewife.
(d) A pilot.

4. How old does Raj say he was when he came from India to the United States?
(a) 14.
(b) 6.
(c) 18.
(d) 10.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long has Klara been performing her magic act when she runs into Raj again?

2. What words does Klara whisper to her audience at the conclusion of every show?

3. The Hindu family in the Gold family's building calls the fortune teller a "rishika" (5), which means a what?

4. What two items does Varya keep taped to the wall next to her bed?

5. At what location do Raj and Klara scavenge for wood to build Klara's magician's cabinet?

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