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

2. What is an accurate description of the Ladies of Leeds?
(a) Lovely airheads.
(b) Ugly spinsters.
(c) Kind, well-dressed, close-knit.
(d) Hard-faced, bad-mouthed women.

3. How does Morecambe celebrate the coming armistice?
(a) By fireworks.
(b) With a prayer meeting.
(c) By closing school for the day.
(d) With a carnival.

4. What can Riley not bear to inscribe on Cy?
(a) The name of Cy's lover.
(b) The word death.
(c) Any religious symbols.
(d) Reeda's name.

5. What does fine-line hatching do?
(a) Tricks the eye into seeing three dimensions.
(b) Causes much blood loss.
(c) Creates a wavy image.
(d) Causes scar tissue.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cy's routine begin?

2. What is the largest amusement park on earth?

3. What do tattoos eventually become?

4. Who are Jonty Preston and Morris Gibbs?

5. How can Cy draw mermaids?

(see the answer key)

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