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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Babylon in Brooklyn.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Cy when "Babylon in Brooklyn" opens?
(a) In San Francisco.
(b) In England.
(c) On Coney Island.
(d) In Italy.

2. How can Cy draw mermaids?
(a) With his eyes closed.
(b) In a variety of provocative, sultry, saucy poses.
(c) By comparing them to Venus de Milo.
(d) With his left hand.

3. How does Cy know his neighbors' names?
(a) By the name tags on their various work shirts.
(b) By the sounds of their accents.
(c) From letters in the foyer mail slots and the smells coming from beneath their doors.
(d) By creating a rhyme of them.

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

5. For what does Cy use the last of Reeda's money?
(a) To send Riley's body to Russia.
(b) To buy a third-class ticket to America.
(c) A sea coffin for Riley.
(d) To refurbish his tattoo parlour.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn?

2. What does the city seem to generate?

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

4. What hums perpetually, eliciting screams?

5. What does Riley admire about Cy?

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