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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, The Lady of Many Eyes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cy begin to do?
(a) Create a name for himself.
(b) Draw a book of designs.
(c) Tattoo some of Riley's customers.
(d) Have sex with some of the willing customers.

2. By what is Grace hypnotized?
(a) The murmer of Cy as he reassures his client.
(b) The sound of Cy humming a hymn.
(c) The sound of the waves rolling on the beach.
(d) The sound of the mechanical embroidery.

3. What regularly claims victims among children and tourists?
(a) The strange riptides.
(b) The local pickpocket.
(c) The strange illnesses brought in through the port.
(d) Morecambe's quicksand pools.

4. Who are Jonty Preston and Morris Gibbs?
(a) Cy's two uncles.
(b) Cy's two step brothers.
(c) Two bullies who regularly beat up Cy.
(d) Cy's two best friends.

5. What does Riley come to understand while at sea?
(a) His father was right about the ocean.
(b) Tattooing is a siren song and the music of the spheres, impossible to resist or explain.
(c) His grandfather had been right to keep his mother from following his father to sea.
(d) That Riley understood the psychological rationale of tattooing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the town council's junctions bother Reeda?

2. What is the largest amusement park on earth?

3. Where is Cy when "Babylon in Brooklyn" opens?

4. For what do the boys use Muriel's equipment?

5. What does a soldier ask Cy about Grace?

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