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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. What is one form of amusement Cy enjoys?
(a) Weekly piddling competitions on the beach.
(b) Wrestling with Monty's sister.
(c) Riding his bike inside school hallways.
(d) Riding bareback on a circus horse.

2. How old is Cy when the book opens?
(a) 7.
(b) 1.
(c) 15.
(d) 10.

3. With what does Cy decide he needs help?
(a) His chemistry homework.
(b) Wooing the girl with whom he is in love.
(c) Getting to America.
(d) Learning how to do tattoos.

4. What can Riley accept?
(a) Horror, sin, evil and lunacy as truth on a par with the love of God and beatific goodness.
(b) Cy's need for a girlfriend.
(c) Cy's need to care for his mother.
(d) Riley's need for alcohol.

5. What do the skyscrapers do to Cy?
(a) They scare him.
(b) They seem to pull him up through the sky and out into space.
(c) They give him a kink in his neck as he constantly looks up.
(d) They make him think he is in heaven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Claudia been doing for eight years?

2. What does Cy think Riley may have done while being attacked?

3. What does Cy see in the discharge basin one day?

4. What do tattoos eventually become?

5. What does a young man working in the parlor of the greatest tattooist in Northern England who is nowhere to be found suggest?

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