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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 do the Ladies of Leeds do?
(a) They are nuns and they pray for the ill at Cy's home.
(b) Join Reeda in collecting meager alms and votes.
(c) Prostitutes.
(d) Circus performers.

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

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

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. Where do the summer crowds gather?
(a) In the movie theaters.
(b) At two local pubs.
(c) Around the lake in the park.
(d) In the town's pavilions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What regularly claims victims among children and tourists?

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

3. What is Muriel's occupation?

4. What is an accurate description of the Ladies of Leeds?

5. From what does Cy avert his eyes?

(see the answer key)

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