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

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

3. What confuses Cy?
(a) Where is father is.
(b) Why his mother cries for strangers.
(c) Watching his mother care for sobbing women who visit in the middle of the night.
(d) Why he is not attending school.

4. What does Cy share with his mother?
(a) His wages.
(b) A worry he has about his father.
(c) A secret about Jonty.
(d) Nothing; he does not really talk to her much anymore.

5. What happens when Cy breaks the glass?
(a) He falls into the building.
(b) He falls to the ground.
(c) A man with intense blue eyes grabs him.
(d) He cuts his arm badly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what are Cy's earliest memories?

2. What is Riley's tenth commandment?

3. How does Cy respond to what he sees in the basin?

4. How does Jonty describe Mr. Riley?

5. Why does Cy wish his eyes could lie?

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