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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Riley die?
(a) Hangs himself.
(b) Is murdered by the man who smashes his fingers.
(c) Slips and cracks his head and drowns in the bay.
(d) Suicide by drinking bleach.

2. Where do the summer crowds gather?
(a) Around the lake in the park.
(b) At two local pubs.
(c) In the movie theaters.
(d) In the town's pavilions.

3. How does Cy's routine begin?
(a) With the question, "Ready?"
(b) By tapping three times on the table for luck.
(c) By singing a song to himself.
(d) By outlining in pencil the work area.

4. What does Reeda admit to Cy?
(a) That she was once married to Mr. Riley.
(b) That she is performing abortions.
(c) That she knows Riley.
(d) That Cy is not her biological son.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Cy and his friends go to watch an effigy of "Kaiser Bill" burn?

2. What can Riley not bear to inscribe on Cy?

3. Of what are Cy's earliest memories?

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

5. Who comes to help Cy's mother die?

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