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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Bloodlights.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Cy respond to what he sees in the basin?
(a) Fear.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Excitement.
(d) Disgust.

2. Why does Cy wish his eyes could lie?
(a) So the schoolmaster wouldn't hit him.
(b) So the school bully would leave him alone.
(c) So he could look his mama in the face.
(d) So his troubles would be over.

3. 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 had a loving, normal home, but Cy is raised in a boarding house of sick people.
(c) She is a Russian, whereas Cy is born in Italy.
(d) She speaks ten languages and Cy only one.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Cy realize about life?

3. Upon what does the town council frown?

4. Where is Cy's father?

5. From what does Cy avert his eyes?

(see the answer key)

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