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The Electric Michelangelo | Quiz

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The Electric Michelangelo | Quiz

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1)

About what is Riley a stickler? (from Part 1, Salvaging Renaissance)

Color.
Design.
Hygiene.
Payment.
2)

In what condition do they find Sedak? (from Part 2, History's Ink)

Fine except a small eye tattoo.
Burned and blinded.
Dead.
Gone.
3)

What do tattoos eventually become? (from Part 1, Salvaging Renaissance)

Just another part of the anatomy.
Famous.
Sexually appealing.
An aggravation.
4)

What does Cy begin to do? (from Part 1, Salvaging Renaissance)

Draw a book of designs.
Tattoo some of Riley's customers.
Create a name for himself.
Have sex with some of the willing customers.
5)

What does Riley accomplish in a year? (from Part 1, Salvaging Renaissance)

Teaches Cy the rest of what Riley knows.
Changes his studio decorations.
Wills himself to death by alcohol, depression and starvation.
Creates a whole book of designs.
6)

What does Cy assume all newcomers to New York feel? (from Part 2, Babylon in Brooklyn)

Excited.
Overwhelmed.
Sorrowful.
Depressed.
7)

What does the missing guard report when Henry finds him? (from Part 2, History's Ink)

That he drank something and then was out cold.
That he can remember nothing.
That he went to the bath room and someone locked him in there.
Being assaulted by two people.
8)

Where is Cy in 1946? (from Part 2, History's Ink)

Back at Coney Island.
In Southern California with Claudia and Arturas.
Back at Pedder Street.
Killed in the war.
9)

What does life in the Bayview teach Cy? (from Part 2, Babylon in Brooklyn)

To appreciate good neighbors.
To have a back door for escape.
To learn to look over the bay to predict the weather.
To live without forming relationships with neighbors.
10)

What has Cy learned? (from Part 1, Salvaging Renaissance)

To sing to keep the women happy.
To size up a skin type by feeling with his eyes closed.
to fight, evict brawlers, negotiate and be enjoyed by women in the back room.
To tattoo without using a drawing.
11)

What does Grace describe in graphic details to the soldiers? (from Part 2, The Lady of Many Eyes)

What would happen to them if they touch her horse.
Nothing; their presence overwhelms her.
What she would be willing to do with them.
What it's like to be in a real battle.
12)

What has Claudia been doing for eight years? (from Part 2, Babylon in Brooklyn)

Displaying at the Human Picture Gallery while performing feats of strength that enthrall the public.
Working as a scully maid.
Raising children.
Helping her husband create tattoo art.
13)

Why does Riley say that Cy needs to comfort customers? (from Part 1, Salvaging Renaissance)

Because they are as much a psychiatrist as artists.
Because some change their minds and flee.
Because it makes the needles hurt less.
Because customers come there for more than one reason.
14)

Where does Cy go after he is thrown out of the hospital? (from Part 2, History's Ink)

To check on Maximus.
To drink himself into a stupor at Varga's.
To try to find Grace's sister.
To the wharf to jump off.
15)

What are Riley's rules of courtship? (from Part 1, Salvaging Renaissance)

To keep his professional life and sexual life seperate.
To treat them tenderly under the needle and harshly under him.
To court for at least a day before sex.
To slap, grip, fist and dog-mount women.
16)

Why does the management of the baby incubation exhibition allow Grace to come in for free? (from Part 2, The Lady of Many Eyes)

To coax her friend, Claudia, to leave.
She actually sneaks in.
She volunteers to help there.
She has a calming effect on the babies.
17)

Why does Cy stay at the hospital? (from Part 2, History's Ink)

He believes that if he leaves Grace will die.
He believes that if he doesn't stay, Grace will think he doesn't love her.
He is afraid the assailant will try again.
He hopes to sneak in to touch Grace.
18)

Why do tattooists stand apart from the tricksters and freaks? (from Part 2, Babylon in Brooklyn)

They develop a true rapport with their customers.
They have to have a license.
They are seen as somehow genuine and timeless.
They do everything in the open.
19)

Who is going to care for Maximus? (from Part 2, History's Ink)

The circus trainer.
Claudia.
Arturas.
Cy.
20)

Why do the police close Sedak's file? (from Part 2, History's Ink)

They find the culprits.
No one really cares about what happened.
They think Sedak insanely hurt himself.
They think the assailants are dead.
21)

How does Cy know his neighbors' names? (from Part 2, Babylon in Brooklyn)

By the name tags on their various work shirts.
By the sounds of their accents.
By creating a rhyme of them.
From letters in the foyer mail slots and the smells coming from beneath their doors.
22)

Who does Cy watch at Varga's? (from Part 2, The Lady of Many Eyes)

Grace playing chess.
Two men downing snapps and arm wrestling.
A man and woman having a loud argument.
The twins having a drinking contest.
23)

Who sports orange hair and smudged black eyes and wears an oversized dress? (from Part 2, Babylon in Brooklyn)

Jessie.
Annamarie.
Claudia.
Mia.
24)

Why is Claudia obsessed with the baby incubation exhibition? (from Part 2, The Lady of Many Eyes)

She likes to sing to the babies.
She has never been pregnant.
She has had six miscarriages.
She thinks it's where angels dwell.
25)

Why do women trust Riley? (from Part 1, Salvaging Renaissance)

His equipment is sterile and his hard-drinking habits do not enter his studio.
He is homosexual.
He is a eunuch.
He greatly respects women.
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