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

2. What does Cy not really understand?
(a) That electricity is dangerous.
(b) That his mother and Muriel perform abortions.
(c) That his mother does tattoos.
(d) That he is going to a boarding school.

3. What does Jonesy think is keeping the ladies away from Cy?
(a) Cy's throwback to the 19th-century look is keeping the ladies away.
(b) His gruff manner.
(c) His lack of nice clothes.
(d) His rough handling of them.

4. What is different about Cy's mom from Cy?
(a) She is a Russian, whereas Cy is born in Italy.
(b) Reeda Parks can see beyond the horror of the sick people in ways her son cannot.
(c) She speaks ten languages and Cy only one.
(d) She had a loving, normal home, but Cy is raised in a boarding house of sick people.

5. How do women's tattoos differ from men's?
(a) They are more colorful.
(b) They are usually flowers.
(c) They almost always have purple and pink in them.
(d) They are smaller and more discreet than men's and entirely personal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Riley want to be buried?

2. How has Riley eclipsed Reeda?

3. Where is Cy's father?

4. What are Riley's rules of courtship?

5. What convinces Cy that the first part of his life is ended?

(see the answer key)

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