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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do mothers drop off their babies at the incubation exhibition?
(a) They hope the baby will die faster there.
(b) They have to by law.
(c) They cannot care for them at home.
(d) They are hopeful the babies will grow into healthy, hungry, crying beings.

2. What does a voice advise a soldier to do while he is getting a tattoo?
(a) To focus on making his breathing slow and easy.
(b) To think about things that make him fall asleep so he will no longer be in his body.
(c) To smoke some hash.
(d) To pant.

3. How has Riley eclipsed Reeda?
(a) In the little aphorisms Cy remembers of Riley's.
(b) He has not eclipsed Reeda.
(c) As Cy's chief means of reckoning.
(d) In that Cy can still see Riley's face in his mind.

4. Where do Claudia and Arturas decide to move and work?
(a) Florida.
(b) The Pacific Northwest.
(c) The California beaches.
(d) New Orleans.

5. Where is Cy when "Babylon in Brooklyn" opens?
(a) In England.
(b) In Italy.
(c) In San Francisco.
(d) On Coney Island.

6. By what is Cy riveted?
(a) The idea of working on Grace's body.
(b) The idea of sex with Grace while working on the tattoo.
(c) The idea of Reeda, Grace and the eye.
(d) The thought that Grace was with all those soldiers right now.

7. Why does Coney Island offer anything repulsive, breathtaking, or monstrously new that people are willing to pay to see?
(a) Because it is consumer driven.
(b) Because it is materialistic.
(c) Because it is they only way for misfits to earn a living.
(d) Because it is Coney Island.

8. With what does Grace need help?
(a) Applying ointment to her skin.
(b) Applying for disability.
(c) Finding a new apartment.
(d) Riding Maximus.

9. What can cost two-thirds of one's tattoo business?
(a) Dirt in the parlour.
(b) Having dull needles.
(c) Not having enough pictures.
(d) Closing on rainy days.

10. Who is in Cy's tattoo parlor when Grace first visits?
(a) The Brooklyn police.
(b) No one.
(c) A young woman from Queens.
(d) Six or seven young men in uniform.

11. What is the largest amusement park on earth?
(a) The Brooklyn Boardwalk.
(b) Park Place.
(c) Coney Island.
(d) Central Park.

12. Where does Cy go despite his vows never to return after Lulu's death?
(a) To Central Park.
(b) To uptown Manhatten.
(c) To watch Grace at the circus.
(d) To Ellis Island.

13. With what is Coney Island drunk?
(a) With youth.
(b) With life.
(c) With the idea of freedom to be.
(d) With vulgarity, surrealism and pure stimulation.

14. Who takes Cy's tattoo equipment?
(a) Three ruffians.
(b) A Latino gang.
(c) The cops.
(d) The mafia.

15. What does Cy realize about the skin after the doctor talks to him?
(a) It is as vital to life as the loving heart.
(b) It defines who a person is.
(c) It is as beautiful plain as adorned.
(d) It is an ever-changing landscape.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cy think he sees in an apartment below him?

2. Why has Cy never married?

3. What happens on Cy's 65th birthday?

4. What does the missing guard report when Henry finds him?

5. Why does Cy skip lunch the next day?

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