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

2. Why do tattooists stand apart from the tricksters and freaks?
(a) They develop a true rapport with their customers.
(b) They do everything in the open.
(c) They have to have a license.
(d) They are seen as somehow genuine and timeless.

3. Who does not feel like maggots in an infected carcass, as they are regarded in the nicer end of town?
(a) Prostitutes.
(b) Sailors.
(c) Visitors to Riley's tattoo parlour.
(d) Jonty and Cy.

4. What are Riley's rules of courtship?
(a) To slap, grip, fist and dog-mount women.
(b) To keep his professional life and sexual life seperate.
(c) To court for at least a day before sex.
(d) To treat them tenderly under the needle and harshly under him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a distinct favorite of Cy and his friends?

2. How does Cy respond to what he sees in the basin?

3. How does Cy know his neighbors' names?

4. What does Riley come to understand while at sea?

5. What does Reeda think of Riley?

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