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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Salvaging Renaissance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Cy and his friends go to watch an effigy of "Kaiser Bill" burn?
(a) Main Street.
(b) Pastuer Blvd.
(c) Market Square.
(d) Pedder Street.

2. Why does Cy wish his eyes could lie?
(a) So his troubles would be over.
(b) So the schoolmaster wouldn't hit him.
(c) So he could look his mama in the face.
(d) So the school bully would leave him alone.

3. What can Riley accept?
(a) Riley's need for alcohol.
(b) Horror, sin, evil and lunacy as truth on a par with the love of God and beatific goodness.
(c) Cy's need to care for his mother.
(d) Cy's need for a girlfriend.

4. What is different about Cy's mom from Cy?
(a) She speaks ten languages and Cy only one.
(b) She is a Russian, whereas Cy is born in Italy.
(c) She had a loving, normal home, but Cy is raised in a boarding house of sick people.
(d) Reeda Parks can see beyond the horror of the sick people in ways her son cannot.

5. Why does Cy's mother board these "guests"?
(a) These guests pay her bills.
(b) She believes it is her duty.
(c) She is a saint.
(d) Her husband forces her to do so.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do women trust Riley?

2. Of what are Cy's earliest memories?

3. Upon what does the town council frown?

4. When does Cy advance to freehand images?

5. Who is Muriel?

(see the answer key)

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