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

2. From what does Cy avert his eyes?
(a) From the ice cream peddler down the street.
(b) From his father's ash urn.
(c) From the neighbor's wife who is always naked.
(d) From sick people coughing into basins.

3. Who does Cy recognize?
(a) A policeman who accepts bribes from his mother.
(b) A man down the street as the thief who stole his bike.
(c) A woman who used to live at the boarding house.
(d) Reeba's helper.

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

5. What is an accurate description of the Ladies of Leeds?
(a) Hard-faced, bad-mouthed women.
(b) Kind, well-dressed, close-knit.
(c) Ugly spinsters.
(d) Lovely airheads.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cy realize about life?

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

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

4. What is one form of amusement Cy enjoys?

5. Where do the summer crowds gather?

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