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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 the Ladies of Leeds do?
(a) Join Reeda in collecting meager alms and votes.
(b) Circus performers.
(c) They are nuns and they pray for the ill at Cy's home.
(d) Prostitutes.

2. What does Cy see in the discharge basin one day?
(a) A prophesy.
(b) A tattoo design.
(c) Vivid images.
(d) Blood.

3. Why do women trust Riley?
(a) His equipment is sterile and his hard-drinking habits do not enter his studio.
(b) He is homosexual.
(c) He greatly respects women.
(d) He is a eunuch.

4. What does Riley come to understand while at sea?
(a) His father was right about the ocean.
(b) That Riley understood the psychological rationale of tattooing.
(c) His grandfather had been right to keep his mother from following his father to sea.
(d) Tattooing is a siren song and the music of the spheres, impossible to resist or explain.

5. What is an accurate description of the Ladies of Leeds?
(a) Ugly spinsters.
(b) Lovely airheads.
(c) Hard-faced, bad-mouthed women.
(d) Kind, well-dressed, close-knit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cy share with his mother?

2. What is the most important thing to remember about the man in question #61?

3. What does Riley admire about Cy?

4. How old is Cy when the book opens?

5. What does Cy observe in other people's eyes?

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