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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. What does a young man working in the parlor of the greatest tattooist in Northern England who is nowhere to be found suggest?
(a) Murder.
(b) Laziness on Riley's part.
(c) Treachery.
(d) Deceit.

2. 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.

3. What is the most important thing to remember about the man in question #61?
(a) He was a good man.
(b) He had a vision no one else could understand.
(c) He had a hard time getting blue paint to use on special things.
(d) He lived 89 years.

4. Why is Riley offering Cy an apprenticeship?
(a) Because he is in love with Cy's mother.
(b) To pass on his artisanship and genius to someone before he dies.
(c) Because he thinks Cy will turn out to be no good otherwise.
(d) Because he knew Cy's father.

5. What does Cy observe as he is searching for shells?
(a) His neighbor hitting his wife.
(b) Jonty and the girl Cy loves kissing.
(c) A plane plunge into the sea.
(d) A boat in the harbor go up in flames.

Short Answer Questions

1. What amazes Cy?

2. What does Reeda admit to Cy?

3. Where does Riley want to be buried?

4. How does Cy's routine begin?

5. About whom does Riley lecture Cy?

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