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

2. Why do the town council's junctions bother Reeda?
(a) Because she had to pick up litter one day.
(b) Because she believes the human body is nothing of which to be ashamed.
(c) Because she didn't have the money for the fine.
(d) Because Cy had to do community service one day.

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

4. What convinces Cy that the first part of his life is ended?
(a) When Jonty drowns in the tide.
(b) When his mother dies.
(c) When Cy falls in love.
(d) When Aurora Borealis, the "northern bloodlights," appear over the town.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Muriel's occupation?

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

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

5. What does Cy realize about life?

(see the answer key)

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