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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the management of the baby incubation exhibition allow Grace to come in for free?
(a) She volunteers to help there.
(b) She actually sneaks in.
(c) To coax her friend, Claudia, to leave.
(d) She has a calming effect on the babies.

2. In what condition do they find Sedak?
(a) Burned and blinded.
(b) Fine except a small eye tattoo.
(c) Dead.
(d) Gone.

3. What happens on Cy's 65th birthday?
(a) Nina Shearer waltzes into his shop.
(b) He returns to America.
(c) He decides to quit tattooing since it isn't popular anymore.
(d) He dies.

4. What is Grace's attacker's plan?
(a) To make Grace forever deformed.
(b) To kill Grace.
(c) To bring Grace's body back to God's original purity of naked cleanness.
(d) To make Grace never play chess again.

5. Who are Grace and Maximus?
(a) A man and his wife who own an arcade on Coney Island.
(b) The woman and her horse who live in apartment 104 in Cy's apartment complex.
(c) A woman and her monkey who live in apartment 104 in Cy's apartment complex.
(d) A woman and her horse who Cy knew in his homeland.

6. After hearing Grace talk, what does Cy wonder about her?
(a) If she could be an orphan of the Great War.
(b) If she is insane.
(c) If she is making it all up.
(d) Why she would carry on in such a manner.

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

8. Why do the police close Sedak's file?
(a) No one really cares about what happened.
(b) They think Sedak insanely hurt himself.
(c) They think the assailants are dead.
(d) They find the culprits.

9. What does Cy assume all newcomers to New York feel?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Sorrowful.
(c) Excited.
(d) Overwhelmed.

10. Why do tattooists stand apart from the tricksters and freaks?
(a) They develop a true rapport with their customers.
(b) They are seen as somehow genuine and timeless.
(c) They have to have a license.
(d) They do everything in the open.

11. What seems preordained in Cy's way of thinking?
(a) Being an artist.
(b) Pairing Grace and Maximus.
(c) Pairing Grace and love.
(d) Finding a wife.

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

13. Why does Cy stay at the hospital?
(a) He believes that if he leaves Grace will die.
(b) He believes that if he doesn't stay, Grace will think he doesn't love her.
(c) He is afraid the assailant will try again.
(d) He hopes to sneak in to touch Grace.

14. What does Grace describe in graphic details to the soldiers?
(a) Nothing; their presence overwhelms her.
(b) What would happen to them if they touch her horse.
(c) What she would be willing to do with them.
(d) What it's like to be in a real battle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the police think about Henry's story?

2. What do the police find when they go to Cy's tattoo parlor?

3. Who is going to care for Maximus?

4. What does Cy do as Grace walks away?

5. What does a soldier ask Cy about Grace?

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