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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 does Daniel reveal to Eddie that he says he has not even told to Mira?
(a) His feelings of responsibility for Klara's death.
(b) His decision to name his first daughter Klara.
(c) The relationship between the fortune teller's prediction and Klara's death.
(d) The way he had hated Klara when she experienced mood swings.

2. In what year does Eddie first starting going to see Klara perform her magic act?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1993.

3. Klara tells the Mirage executives that it takes what element to reveal how inadequate reality is?
(a) Faith.
(b) Magic.
(c) Trust.
(d) Courage.

4. What is Mira's major in college when she and Daniel first meet?
(a) Art history.
(b) Education.
(c) Library Science.
(d) Biology.

5. How many members of the Costello family does Eddie say are running a fortune-telling fraud ring?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the morning of Raj and Ruby's departure from Daniel's house, what information does Eddie call Daniel to tell him?

2. Who is the only person who knows that Simon died of AIDS on the date the fortune teller foretold?

3. When it begins to snow on the brief hike through Mohonk Preserve, Daniel expects Ruby to complain, but instead she does what?

4. Eddie says that when the FBI had finished their investigation of the Costello family, they had found the family to be worth how much money?

5. When Klara becomes convinced that the knocks she hears are emanating from Simon's spirit, what emotion does she think he is feeling?

Short Essay Questions

1. What changes does Daniel hear in Simon's voice when Simon calls to tell Daniel that he is sick?

2. What reasons does Klara give for hating to perform magic in casinos?

3. What information does Eddie reveal to Daniel when they meet at the bar 14 years after their earlier meeting there?

4. What kinds of information does Daniel find out about Ruby and Raj when he researches them online the night of their arrival for the Thanksgiving holiday?

5. Klara believes that magic is the only element that can reveal how inadequate one other element of life truly is. What is that element?

6. Why does Daniel refrain from answering Ruby when she asks him why he is not at work over the Thanksgiving holiday?

7. What problem does Klara develop after SImon's death?

8. For what reason is Daniel startled when Ruby asks if he has any pictures of Klara?

9. For what reason does Gertie refuse to allow Klara to be buried in the family plot and which family member has the strongest reaction to her decision?

10. What detail does Daniel choose to tell Ruby when she asks him to tell her one interesting thing about her grandfather Saul?

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