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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 has Cy learned?
(a) To size up a skin type by feeling with his eyes closed.
(b) To sing to keep the women happy.
(c) To tattoo without using a drawing.
(d) to fight, evict brawlers, negotiate and be enjoyed by women in the back room.

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

3. What does Reeda think of Riley?
(a) That he is a drunkard, a Catholic and maybe a Bolshevik.
(b) That he is dangerous.
(c) That he is somewhat crazy.
(d) That he is honorable.

4. Why does Cy's mother board these "guests"?
(a) These guests pay her bills.
(b) Her husband forces her to do so.
(c) She is a saint.
(d) She believes it is her duty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cy share with his mother?

2. What are Riley's rules of courtship?

3. Why do the town council's junctions bother Reeda?

4. What does the town council do to offenders of their policies?

5. Who is Muriel?

(see the answer key)

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