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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Bloodlights.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Cy wish his eyes could lie?
(a) So his troubles would be over.
(b) So he could look his mama in the face.
(c) So the schoolmaster wouldn't hit him.
(d) So the school bully would leave him alone.

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

5. Who are Jonty Preston and Morris Gibbs?
(a) Cy's two uncles.
(b) Cy's two step brothers.
(c) Two bullies who regularly beat up Cy.
(d) Cy's two best friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is different about Cy's mom from Cy?

2. What is one form of amusement Cy enjoys?

3. Why does Cy's mother board these "guests"?

4. What does Cy realize about life?

5. How does Cy respond to what he sees in the basin?

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