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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, The Kaiser and the Queen of Morecambe.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the town council do to offenders of their policies?
(a) Gives them community service.
(b) Publishes the names of offenders.
(c) Makes them pick litter off the beach.
(d) Fines them.

2. Why does Cy's mother board these "guests"?
(a) She believes it is her duty.
(b) She is a saint.
(c) Her husband forces her to do so.
(d) These guests pay her bills.

3. Where does Cy work?
(a) At the stables.
(b) In a bakery.
(c) In a print shop in the afternoons.
(d) In a blacksmith shop.

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

5. What convinces Cy that the first part of his life is ended?
(a) When his mother dies.
(b) When Cy falls in love.
(c) When Jonty drowns in the tide.
(d) When Aurora Borealis, the "northern bloodlights," appear over the town.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Cy when the book opens?

2. Upon what does the town council frown?

3. What do the Ladies of Leeds do?

4. From what do most of the boarders at Cy's home suffer?

5. Who is Muriel?

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