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

2. What does Cy's mother say about the sun's light?
(a) That it is brightest shining through the mist.
(b) That it is brighter when she is brighter.
(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. What does Cy observe in other people's eyes?
(a) A despondency.
(b) A anger at the war's toll.
(c) A strange new glow as they find ways to work through pain.
(d) A hunger for simpler times.

4. Of what are Cy's earliest memories?
(a) Laughing summer crowds.
(b) A ship from India coming into port one day and the excitement of it.
(c) A pig being slaughtered next door.
(d) His mother leaning over his bed and singing him a lullaby.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Cy wish his eyes could lie?

3. What convinces Cy that the first part of his life is ended?

4. What does Cy not know?

5. What does Cy see in the discharge basin one day?

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