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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Babylon in Brooklyn.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Cy work?
(a) In a print shop in the afternoons.
(b) In a bakery.
(c) In a blacksmith shop.
(d) At the stables.

2. Who comes to help Cy's mother die?
(a) Aunt Doris.
(b) Aunt June.
(c) Aunt Dorthey.
(d) Cy's grandmother.

3. What convinces Cy that the first part of his life is ended?
(a) When Jonty drowns in the tide.
(b) When Aurora Borealis, the "northern bloodlights," appear over the town.
(c) When his mother dies.
(d) When Cy falls in love.

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

5. What does Cy observe in other people's eyes?
(a) A despondency.
(b) A hunger for simpler times.
(c) A strange new glow as they find ways to work through pain.
(d) A anger at the war's toll.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jonesy think is keeping the ladies away from Cy?

2. Why does Cy wish his eyes could lie?

3. What is the most important thing to remember about the man in question #61?

4. What does the town council do to offenders of their policies?

5. Why do tattooists stand apart from the tricksters and freaks?

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