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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 discover on Riley's body?
(a) A tattoo for every year of Riley's life.
(b) A tribute tattooed to Reeda.
(c) Fitting verses tattooed on Riley's right sole.
(d) No tattoos.

2. Who does Cy recognize?
(a) A policeman who accepts bribes from his mother.
(b) A woman who used to live at the boarding house.
(c) Reeba's helper.
(d) A man down the street as the thief who stole his bike.

3. What does Riley come to understand while at sea?
(a) His father was right about the ocean.
(b) Tattooing is a siren song and the music of the spheres, impossible to resist or explain.
(c) His grandfather had been right to keep his mother from following his father to sea.
(d) That Riley understood the psychological rationale of tattooing.

4. Why is Riley offering Cy an apprenticeship?
(a) Because he is in love with Cy's mother.
(b) Because he thinks Cy will turn out to be no good otherwise.
(c) Because he knew Cy's father.
(d) To pass on his artisanship and genius to someone before he dies.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the city seem to generate?

2. What does Cy share with his mother?

3. What happens when Cy breaks the glass?

4. Who is Colin Willacy?

5. What do the skyscrapers do to Cy?

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