2. What does Reeda admit to Cy?
(a) That she is performing abortions.
(b) That she knows Riley.
(c) That Cy is not her biological son.
(d) That she was once married to Mr. Riley.

3. What has Cy learned?
(a) To tattoo without using a drawing.
(b) To sing to keep the women happy.
(c) To size up a skin type by feeling with his eyes closed.
(d) to fight, evict brawlers, negotiate and be enjoyed by women in the back room.

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

5. For what do the boys use Muriel's equipment?
(a) To jolt each other in the arm.
(b) To experience a splendid rush of energy.
(c) To check their heartbeats.
(d) To watch the ships in the harbor.

6. What does Cy hear through the window of the building he climbs?
(a) Music.
(b) Mechanical bee sounds and voices.
(c) Gunshots.
(d) A scream.

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

8. What do Cy, Jonty and Morris seek?
(a) A way to sell their inventions.
(b) A way to get to the far coast.
(c) After school employment.
(d) New ways to escape the town council's rules.

9. Why does Cy climb a building?
(a) To race ahead off the crowd across the rooftops.
(b) To hack the villain loose from a flagpole.
(c) To see the burning better.
(d) To find his mother in the crowd.

10. What does Cy observe as he is searching for shells?
(a) A boat in the harbor go up in flames.
(b) Jonty and the girl Cy loves kissing.
(c) His neighbor hitting his wife.
(d) A plane plunge into the sea.

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

12. What happens when Cy breaks the glass?
(a) He falls to the ground.
(b) A man with intense blue eyes grabs him.
(c) He cuts his arm badly.
(d) He falls into the building.

13. From what do most of the boarders at Cy's home suffer?
(a) Syphilis.
(b) Arthritis.
(c) Old Age.
(d) Tuberculosis.

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

15. What confuses Cy?
(a) Watching his mother care for sobbing women who visit in the middle of the night.
(b) Where is father is.
(c) Why he is not attending school.
(d) Why his mother cries for strangers.