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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. Who are Jonty Preston and Morris Gibbs?
(a) Cy's two step brothers.
(b) Two bullies who regularly beat up Cy.
(c) Cy's two best friends.
(d) Cy's two uncles.

2. Why does Cy climb a building?
(a) To race ahead off the crowd across the rooftops.
(b) To find his mother in the crowd.
(c) To hack the villain loose from a flagpole.
(d) To see the burning better.

3. What does Riley offer Cy?
(a) A message for his mother.
(b) An apprenticeship.
(c) A few dollars a week to help him.
(d) A truce.

4. What is Muriel's occupation?
(a) A respected electrotherapist.
(b) A nurse.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A circus performer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Cy recognize?

2. What do the Ladies of Leeds do?

3. What do tattoos eventually become?

4. How does Jonty describe Mr. Riley?

5. Who is Colin Willacy?

(see the answer key)

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