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

2. What does Cy think Riley may have done while being attacked?
(a) Got deathly silent.
(b) Thought about having a drink.
(c) Screamed.
(d) Tried the numbing oriental techniques some clients use under the needle.

3. Where do Cy and his friends go to watch an effigy of "Kaiser Bill" burn?
(a) Pedder Street.
(b) Pastuer Blvd.
(c) Market Square.
(d) Main Street.

4. What do Cy, Jonty and Morris seek?
(a) A way to get to the far coast.
(b) After school employment.
(c) A way to sell their inventions.
(d) New ways to escape the town council's rules.

5. What is different about Cy's mom from Cy?
(a) She had a loving, normal home, but Cy is raised in a boarding house of sick people.
(b) She speaks ten languages and Cy only one.
(c) She is a Russian, whereas Cy is born in Italy.
(d) Reeda Parks can see beyond the horror of the sick people in ways her son cannot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What seems preordained in Cy's way of thinking?

2. Where do the summer crowds gather?

3. Of what is Riley protective?

4. Why does Cy climb a building?

5. What is in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn?

(see the answer key)

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