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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, The Lady of Many Eyes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Grace's paper show?
(a) An unblinking, almost hieroglyphic eye.
(b) Grace's face on a mermaid.
(c) A horse bowing its two front legs.
(d) A horse rearing.

2. What does Jonesy think is keeping the ladies away from Cy?
(a) His lack of nice clothes.
(b) Cy's throwback to the 19th-century look is keeping the ladies away.
(c) His gruff manner.
(d) His rough handling of them.

3. What convinces Cy that the first part of his life is ended?
(a) When Jonty drowns in the tide.
(b) When Aurora Borealis, the "northern bloodlights," appear over the town.
(c) When his mother dies.
(d) When Cy falls in love.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jonty describe Mr. Riley?

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

3. Why does Coney Island offer anything repulsive, breathtaking, or monstrously new that people are willing to pay to see?

4. When does Cy advance to freehand images?

5. What does the city seem to generate?

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