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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 confuses Cy?
(a) Why his mother cries for strangers.
(b) Where is father is.
(c) Watching his mother care for sobbing women who visit in the middle of the night.
(d) Why he is not attending school.

2. Where is Cy's father?
(a) He is at war in Germany.
(b) He is in America working to bring them over.
(c) He is at work at the docks.
(d) He was lost years ago at sea.

3. How old is Cy when the book opens?
(a) 1.
(b) 10.
(c) 15.
(d) 7.

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

5. What does Cy realize about life?
(a) That it is never wonderful.
(b) That it can be messy and cruel.
(c) That he is old enough to understand the vagaries of life.
(d) That it is always wonderful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cy observe in other people's eyes?

2. Where do the summer crowds gather?

3. What do the Ladies of Leeds do?

4. Who does Cy recognize?

5. Why do the town council's junctions bother Reeda?

(see the answer key)

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