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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 does Cy think he sees in an apartment below him?
(a) A tiger in a cage.
(b) A horse eating hay.
(c) A mermaid.
(d) An alligator on the window seat.

2. What does a young man working in the parlor of the greatest tattooist in Northern England who is nowhere to be found suggest?
(a) Treachery.
(b) Deceit.
(c) Laziness on Riley's part.
(d) Murder.

3. With what is Coney Island drunk?
(a) With youth.
(b) With life.
(c) With vulgarity, surrealism and pure stimulation.
(d) With the idea of freedom to be.

4. At what does Cy marvel?
(a) The way a woman's breast moves a tattoo.
(b) The intricate designs Riley tattoos.
(c) Women's endurance and unpredictability.
(d) The way the colors glow on women.

5. What does Cy see in the discharge basin one day?
(a) A prophesy.
(b) Blood.
(c) A tattoo design.
(d) Vivid images.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Cy, Jonty and Morris seek?

2. Who is Lulu?

3. Where is Cy's father?

4. What is the poor man's illustrator?

5. What are Riley's rules of courtship?

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