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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, The Kaiser and the Queen of Morecambe.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an accurate description of the Ladies of Leeds?
(a) Lovely airheads.
(b) Ugly spinsters.
(c) Hard-faced, bad-mouthed women.
(d) Kind, well-dressed, close-knit.

2. What does Reeda think of Riley?
(a) That he is honorable.
(b) That he is a drunkard, a Catholic and maybe a Bolshevik.
(c) That he is dangerous.
(d) That he is somewhat crazy.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Cy work?

2. From what does Cy avert his eyes?

3. What regularly claims victims among children and tourists?

4. Why do the town council's junctions bother Reeda?

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

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