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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 the city seem to generate?
(a) The energy of illumination from within.
(b) Languor.
(c) Crime.
(d) Excitement.

2. When does Cy advance to freehand images?
(a) When there is no picture for what the customer wants.
(b) When he is half drunk.
(c) When Riley can supervise him.
(d) Whenever the "alpha male" is absent or more than one customer awaits one.

3. What does Cy not know?
(a) That his mother is pregnant.
(b) That his father is really alive.
(c) That abortionists can be jailed.
(d) That his mother plans to get an abortion.

4. What does Cy realize about life?
(a) That it is always wonderful.
(b) That it can be messy and cruel.
(c) That he is old enough to understand the vagaries of life.
(d) That it is never wonderful.

5. What does Riley admire about Cy?
(a) His intelligence.
(b) His mother.
(c) His reticence.
(d) His imagination and dexterity.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Cy fall in love?

2. How does Cy respond to what he sees in the basin?

3. What does Cy hear through the window of the building he climbs?

4. Where do Cy and his friends go to watch an effigy of "Kaiser Bill" burn?

5. What does a young man working in the parlor of the greatest tattooist in Northern England who is nowhere to be found suggest?

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