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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. Of what is Coney Island proof?
(a) That human depravity is alive and well.
(b) That the stranger one is the more money one can make.
(c) That the Victorian era cannot conjure out the black Gothic soul or suppress its darker energy.
(d) That freedom to be eccentric exists.

2. Why is Claudia obsessed with the baby incubation exhibition?
(a) She thinks it's where angels dwell.
(b) She has never been pregnant.
(c) She has had six miscarriages.
(d) She likes to sing to the babies.

3. What has Claudia been doing for eight years?
(a) Raising children.
(b) Helping her husband create tattoo art.
(c) Displaying at the Human Picture Gallery while performing feats of strength that enthrall the public.
(d) Working as a scully maid.

4. What is Riley's tenth commandment?
(a) Thou shalt get paid.
(b) Thou shalt not feel guilty.
(c) Thou shalt have sex if that is the customer's need.
(d) Thou shalt get used to it.

5. What do tattoos eventually become?
(a) Famous.
(b) Sexually appealing.
(c) Just another part of the anatomy.
(d) An aggravation.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is Claudia obsessed?

2. What does Grace's paper show?

3. What is a key to the customer's personality?

4. What can Riley not bear to inscribe on Cy?

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

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