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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two items does Varya keep taped to the wall next to her bed?
(a) Maps and music posters.
(b) Calendars and maps.
(c) Concert tickets and playbills.
(d) Family photographs and family trees.

2. What is NOT one way in which Simon describes his father Saul?
(a) Decorous.
(b) Timid.
(c) Courageous.
(d) A man who skirts conflict.

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

4. Daniel tells his siblings that the fortune teller is rumored to be able to tell a person what information?
(a) The joys that will happen in a person's life.
(b) The description of a person's future spouse's face.
(c) The day a person will die.
(d) The number of children a person will have.

5. Klara does not believe in the Jewish heaven because she considers it to be too what?
(a) Perfect.
(b) Sterile.
(c) Hopeless.
(d) Mysterious.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Klara do with the lacquered box once Gertie appears furious at its absence?

3. Gali tells the members of his ballet company often that their "movements must have" (85) what?

4. Simon recalls that the fortune teller had never asked for what item?

5. What action does Benny recommend that Simon take after watching him on Simon's first night working at the bar?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the first of the Gold siblings to hear about the fortune teller and what action does this sibling then take?

2. What is Robert's reaction to the AIDS epidemic and how does it differ from Simon's?

3. The narrator takes pains to explain that Klara does not share her magic with people in order to deceive them. What is her true reason?

4. What differences between Robert and Simon does the author depict as those that drive Simon to cheat on Robert?

5. Describe the significance of Simon's dream about salmon and how it relates to his mindset at the time of his dream.

6. Compare Varya's ideas about fortune telling with Ruby Singh's.

7. What do the Gold children bring to the fortune teller as payment for her services and why?

8. When the narrator reveals that Raj has "big plans" (113) for overhauling Klara's act, what kind of changes does the narrator depict?

9. How is repetition employed within the opening passage of Part Two:Proteus and to what effect?

10. How does the author depict Simon's mixed feelings about his mother's decision to relinquish him at the police station?

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