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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Cy's father?
(a) He is at war in Germany.
(b) He was lost years ago at sea.
(c) He is in America working to bring them over.
(d) He is at work at the docks.

2. For what do the boys use Muriel's equipment?
(a) To watch the ships in the harbor.
(b) To experience a splendid rush of energy.
(c) To check their heartbeats.
(d) To jolt each other in the arm.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Muriel's occupation?

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

3. Of what are Cy's earliest memories?

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

5. What regularly claims victims among children and tourists?

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