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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What words does Klara whisper to her audience at the conclusion of every show?
2. Whose shift does Simon cover when he "wakes up with a red dot on the white of his left eye"? (86)
3. Who is the oldest sibling in the Gold family?
4. What does Raj do for a living when Klara runs into him again after ten years?
5. What name does Ruby's mother call her?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the author's purpose for using the allusion to The Statue of Liberty when depicting the children's grandfather Lev?
2. What is Robert's reaction to the AIDS epidemic and how does it differ from Simon's?
3. What evidence does the author provide for the claim that the Gold children in 1969 "are siblings, this summer, in a way they never will be again" (4)?
4. What do the Gold children bring to the fortune teller as payment for her services and why?
5. How do the Purp employees and owners react to the news of Harvey Milk's assassination and how do they take action?
6. What aspects of Robert's character are depicted as those that make him "stand out" (59) to Simon?
7. How does the novel's setting within the prologue affect the events of the narrative?
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 did the Gold children's maternal grandmother die and why are the children adults before they find out this information?
10. What differences between Robert and Simon does the author depict as those that drive Simon to cheat on Robert?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the author's message regarding motherhood and what themes does the author employ in order to send these messages to the reader?
Essay Topic 2
How is the topic of revolution treated within the novel and how does its treatment relate to the book's depicted eras?
Essay Topic 3
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Chloe Benjamin's The Immortalists. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the book.
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