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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Cy breaks the glass?
(a) He falls into the building.
(b) A man with intense blue eyes grabs him.
(c) He falls to the ground.
(d) He cuts his arm badly.

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

3. Who is Colin Willacy?
(a) The headmaster at Cy's school.
(b) Cy's grandfather.
(c) Cy's uncle.
(d) Cy's mother's lawyer.

4. What does Reeda admit to Cy?
(a) That she was once married to Mr. Riley.
(b) That she knows Riley.
(c) That she is performing abortions.
(d) That Cy is not her biological son.

5. How does Riley die?
(a) Suicide by drinking bleach.
(b) Is murdered by the man who smashes his fingers.
(c) Slips and cracks his head and drowns in the bay.
(d) Hangs himself.

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

7. What confuses Cy?
(a) Watching his mother care for sobbing women who visit in the middle of the night.
(b) Why he is not attending school.
(c) Why his mother cries for strangers.
(d) Where is father is.

8. Why does Cy have to use distilled water to make his inks?
(a) Because of war rationing.
(b) Because alcohol spirit solutions cannot be safely stored in the cupboard.
(c) Because alcohol spirit solutions have been outlawed.
(d) Because Riley is experiementing with a new ink formula.

9. Who comes to help Cy's mother die?
(a) Aunt June.
(b) Aunt Doris.
(c) Aunt Dorthey.
(d) Cy's grandmother.

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

11. 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.

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

13. What is a distinct favorite of Cy and his friends?
(a) The blaring music.
(b) The cotton candy.
(c) The ice cream machine.
(d) A line of Bathing Beauties parades barer than ever and Gaynor Shearer's erect nipples.

14. Who is Muriel?
(a) Reeda's lover.
(b) Morris's mother.
(c) Reeda's secret partner.
(d) Reeda's older sister.

15. At what does Cy marvel?
(a) Women's endurance and unpredictability.
(b) The way a woman's breast moves a tattoo.
(c) The way the colors glow on women.
(d) The intricate designs Riley tattoos.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Riley admire about Cy?

2. Who slices the rope?

3. What does Cy realize about life?

4. How does Jonty describe Mr. Riley?

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

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