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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 do people know?
(a) There are two freehanders working inside as unequal partners.
(b) Cy is almost better than Riley.
(c) Cy is as good as Riley.
(d) Cy is much better than Riley.

2. Why does Riley say that Cy needs to comfort customers?
(a) Because it makes the needles hurt less.
(b) Because customers come there for more than one reason.
(c) Because they are as much a psychiatrist as artists.
(d) Because some change their minds and flee.

3. What does Cy realize about life?
(a) That it can be messy and cruel.
(b) That it is always wonderful.
(c) That he is old enough to understand the vagaries of life.
(d) That it is never wonderful.

4. What's the only way Riley would consider himself a father figure to Cy?
(a) If Cy can beat him in arm wrestling.
(b) If Cy's mother wants Riley to serve that purpose.
(c) If Cy can prove Riley is his real father.
(d) If he can bring his fine-legged mother into the equation.

5. What does Cy not really understand?
(a) That he is going to a boarding school.
(b) That his mother and Muriel perform abortions.
(c) That electricity is dangerous.
(d) That his mother does tattoos.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what do the boys use Muriel's equipment?

2. What does Cy think Riley may have done while being attacked?

3. What does Riley come to understand while at sea?

4. Why does Cy's mother board these "guests"?

5. Of what is Riley protective?

(see the answer key)

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