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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. Why does Cy have to use distilled water to make his inks?
(a) Because alcohol spirit solutions have been outlawed.
(b) Because of war rationing.
(c) Because Riley is experiementing with a new ink formula.
(d) Because alcohol spirit solutions cannot be safely stored in the cupboard.

2. What happens when Cy breaks the glass?
(a) A man with intense blue eyes grabs him.
(b) He cuts his arm badly.
(c) He falls to the ground.
(d) He falls into the building.

3. What does Cy observe in other people's eyes?
(a) A strange new glow as they find ways to work through pain.
(b) A hunger for simpler times.
(c) A despondency.
(d) A anger at the war's toll.

4. Why does Cy climb a building?
(a) To find his mother in the crowd.
(b) To hack the villain loose from a flagpole.
(c) To race ahead off the crowd across the rooftops.
(d) To see the burning better.

5. What does Cy's mother say about the sun's light?
(a) That it is brightest shining through the mist.
(b) That it is brighter when she is brighter.
(c) That the sun's light does not go out at night but migrates to Ireland and America.
(d) That it fades into nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jonty describe Mr. Riley?

2. What does the city seem to generate?

3. About what is Riley a stickler?

4. Why does America require voyeurism in every attraction?

5. What are Riley's rules of courtship?

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