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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. What hums perpetually, eliciting screams?
(a) The hawkers on the boardwalk.
(b) Electric rides.
(c) The generators on the boardwalk.
(d) The wires strung overhead.

2. What does Cy begin to do?
(a) Have sex with some of the willing customers.
(b) Draw a book of designs.
(c) Create a name for himself.
(d) Tattoo some of Riley's customers.

3. Where does Riley want to be buried?
(a) At sea.
(b) In his homeland of Russia.
(c) He wants to be cremated.
(d) At the hillside cemetary.

4. From what does Cy avert his eyes?
(a) From the neighbor's wife who is always naked.
(b) From sick people coughing into basins.
(c) From his father's ash urn.
(d) From the ice cream peddler down the street.

5. 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 he can bring his fine-legged mother into the equation.
(c) If Cy can prove Riley is his real father.
(d) If Cy's mother wants Riley to serve that purpose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what does the town council frown?

2. How does Morecambe celebrate the coming armistice?

3. How does Cy's routine begin?

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

5. What do the Ladies of Leeds do?

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