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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, The Lady of Many Eyes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what is Coney Island proof?
(a) That the stranger one is the more money one can make.
(b) That freedom to be eccentric exists.
(c) That the Victorian era cannot conjure out the black Gothic soul or suppress its darker energy.
(d) That human depravity is alive and well.

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

3. Why is Claudia obsessed with the baby incubation exhibition?
(a) She likes to sing to the babies.
(b) She has never been pregnant.
(c) She has had six miscarriages.
(d) She thinks it's where angels dwell.

4. Of what is Riley protective?
(a) His privacy.
(b) His tools.
(c) His self-proclaimed genius.
(d) His pictures.

5. What do the Ladies of Leeds do?
(a) Join Reeda in collecting meager alms and votes.
(b) Prostitutes.
(c) They are nuns and they pray for the ill at Cy's home.
(d) Circus performers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Grace and Maximus?

2. By what is Cy riveted?

3. How does Cy know his neighbors' names?

4. About what is Riley a stickler?

5. Where does Riley take Cy for his first visit to a pub?

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