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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. By what is Grace hypnotized?
(a) The sound of the mechanical embroidery.
(b) The sound of the waves rolling on the beach.
(c) The murmer of Cy as he reassures his client.
(d) The sound of Cy humming a hymn.

2. What does Riley come to understand while at sea?
(a) Tattooing is a siren song and the music of the spheres, impossible to resist or explain.
(b) His grandfather had been right to keep his mother from following his father to sea.
(c) That Riley understood the psychological rationale of tattooing.
(d) His father was right about the ocean.

3. What has Cy forgotten?
(a) Why his father went to sea.
(b) What song his mother used to sing.
(c) Exactly how his mother's face looked.
(d) How his grandfather used to buy him ice cream when he came visiting.

4. What's the only way Riley would consider himself a father figure to Cy?
(a) If Cy can prove Riley is his real father.
(b) If Cy can beat him in arm wrestling.
(c) If he can bring his fine-legged mother into the equation.
(d) If Cy's mother wants Riley to serve that purpose.

5. Why does Cy skip lunch the next day?
(a) So he won't miss Grace should she show up.
(b) He is not hungry.
(c) He is still suffering the effects of the tainted hot dog of yesterday.
(d) He is on a restricted-calorie diet.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Riley accomplish in a year?

3. What do tattoos eventually become?

4. What is Riley's tenth commandment?

5. About what is Riley a stickler?

(see the answer key)

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