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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Cy wish his eyes could lie?
(a) So the school bully would leave him alone.
(b) So he could look his mama in the face.
(c) So the schoolmaster wouldn't hit him.
(d) So his troubles would be over.

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

3. How does Jonty describe Mr. Riley?
(a) An undesirable papist who buys pigs' heads for ungodly purposes.
(b) A underworld spy.
(c) A cool tattoo artist.
(d) A lunatic.

4. What is a key to the customer's personality?
(a) The color choices.
(b) The way the customer reacts to pain.
(c) The choice of pictures.
(d) The scent of the skin.

5. What amazes Cy?
(a) That Riley hums hymns while he works.
(b) That someone so flaccid and bawdy can be so intricate and precise in his line work.
(c) That Riley can be drunk and create magnificent tattoos.
(d) That Riley seldoms is aroused by his naked female clients.

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

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

8. What does Cy not know?
(a) That his mother is pregnant.
(b) That his mother plans to get an abortion.
(c) That abortionists can be jailed.
(d) That his father is really alive.

9. Where is Cy's father?
(a) He was lost years ago at sea.
(b) He is at war in Germany.
(c) He is in America working to bring them over.
(d) He is at work at the docks.

10. What do people know?
(a) Cy is as good as Riley.
(b) There are two freehanders working inside as unequal partners.
(c) Cy is almost better than Riley.
(d) Cy is much better than Riley.

11. What does Cy observe as he is searching for shells?
(a) A plane plunge into the sea.
(b) Jonty and the girl Cy loves kissing.
(c) A boat in the harbor go up in flames.
(d) His neighbor hitting his wife.

12. When Cy arrives home eyes glazed and gait obstructed, what does Reeda assume?
(a) He is ill.
(b) He has overeaten.
(c) He is drunk.
(d) He sprained his ankle.

13. What can Riley not bear to inscribe on Cy?
(a) The name of Cy's lover.
(b) The word death.
(c) Any religious symbols.
(d) Reeda's name.

14. What does fine-line hatching do?
(a) Creates a wavy image.
(b) Causes scar tissue.
(c) Tricks the eye into seeing three dimensions.
(d) Causes much blood loss.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what are Cy's earliest memories?

2. What does Riley admire about Cy?

3. What is an accurate description of the Ladies of Leeds?

4. What is different about Cy's mom from Cy?

5. Where does Riley take Cy for his first visit to a pub?

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