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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Babylon in Brooklyn.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Lulu?
(a) A bareback trick rider.
(b) One of the co-joined twins.
(c) A tightrope walker.
(d) The gentle performing elephant that accidentally crushes a man to death.

2. What bounces off Claudia like hail from an ox's rump?
(a) Cruelty about her non-female form.
(b) Sexual innuendos.
(c) Praise for her tattoos.
(d) Insults about her husband's ugly features.

3. What are Riley's rules of courtship?
(a) To treat them tenderly under the needle and harshly under him.
(b) To slap, grip, fist and dog-mount women.
(c) To court for at least a day before sex.
(d) To keep his professional life and sexual life seperate.

4. At what does Cy marvel?
(a) Women's endurance and unpredictability.
(b) The way a woman's breast moves a tattoo.
(c) The intricate designs Riley tattoos.
(d) The way the colors glow on women.

5. What does Cy observe in other people's eyes?
(a) A strange new glow as they find ways to work through pain.
(b) A despondency.
(c) A anger at the war's toll.
(d) A hunger for simpler times.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jonesy think is keeping the ladies away from Cy?

2. What does Cy observe as he is searching for shells?

3. Why does Coney Island offer anything repulsive, breathtaking, or monstrously new that people are willing to pay to see?

4. How has Riley eclipsed Reeda?

5. What does Cy not really understand?

(see the answer key)

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