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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 know?
(a) That his mother is pregnant.
(b) That his father is really alive.
(c) That his mother plans to get an abortion.
(d) That abortionists can be jailed.

2. Upon what does the town council frown?
(a) On school being closed on Fridays.
(b) On the sick people Cy's mother nurses.
(c) On boys younger than 10 on the beach without a parent.
(d) On mixed bathing and skimpy outfits.

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

4. What regularly claims victims among children and tourists?
(a) The local pickpocket.
(b) Morecambe's quicksand pools.
(c) The strange illnesses brought in through the port.
(d) The strange riptides.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For what do the boys use Muriel's equipment?

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

4. What does Cy realize about life?

5. What confuses Cy?

(see the answer key)

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