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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Of what is Riley protective?
(a) His pictures.
(b) His privacy.
(c) His self-proclaimed genius.
(d) His tools.
2. Where do Cy and his friends go to watch an effigy of "Kaiser Bill" burn?
(a) Pastuer Blvd.
(b) Market Square.
(c) Pedder Street.
(d) Main Street.
3. Who is Colin Willacy?
(a) Cy's mother's lawyer.
(b) Cy's grandfather.
(c) The headmaster at Cy's school.
(d) Cy's uncle.
4. Who comes to help Cy's mother die?
(a) Aunt Dorthey.
(b) Aunt Doris.
(c) Cy's grandmother.
(d) Aunt June.
5. For what does Cy use the last of Reeda's money?
(a) To buy a third-class ticket to America.
(b) To refurbish his tattoo parlour.
(c) A sea coffin for Riley.
(d) To send Riley's body to Russia.
6. What does Riley come to understand while at sea?
(a) Tattooing is a siren song and the music of the spheres, impossible to resist or explain.
(b) That Riley understood the psychological rationale of tattooing.
(c) His grandfather had been right to keep his mother from following his father to sea.
(d) His father was right about the ocean.
7. What do people know?
(a) Cy is almost better than Riley.
(b) Cy is as good as Riley.
(c) There are two freehanders working inside as unequal partners.
(d) Cy is much better than Riley.
8. What is Riley's tenth commandment?
(a) Thou shalt get used to it.
(b) Thou shalt get paid.
(c) Thou shalt have sex if that is the customer's need.
(d) Thou shalt not feel guilty.
9. What do the Ladies of Leeds do?
(a) Join Reeda in collecting meager alms and votes.
(b) Circus performers.
(c) Prostitutes.
(d) They are nuns and they pray for the ill at Cy's home.
10. What can Riley accept?
(a) Cy's need to care for his mother.
(b) Horror, sin, evil and lunacy as truth on a par with the love of God and beatific goodness.
(c) Riley's need for alcohol.
(d) Cy's need for a girlfriend.
11. What is one form of amusement Cy enjoys?
(a) Riding bareback on a circus horse.
(b) Wrestling with Monty's sister.
(c) Weekly piddling competitions on the beach.
(d) Riding his bike inside school hallways.
12. What happens when Cy breaks the glass?
(a) He falls into the building.
(b) He falls to the ground.
(c) He cuts his arm badly.
(d) A man with intense blue eyes grabs him.
13. What does Cy see in the discharge basin one day?
(a) A tattoo design.
(b) A prophesy.
(c) Blood.
(d) Vivid images.
14. Who slices the rope?
(a) A woman with a machete.
(b) A policeman.
(c) An angry looking man.
(d) His friends.
15. What does Reeda think of Riley?
(a) That he is dangerous.
(b) That he is a drunkard, a Catholic and maybe a Bolshevik.
(c) That he is honorable.
(d) That he is somewhat crazy.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Cy's mother board these "guests"?
2. What does a young man working in the parlor of the greatest tattooist in Northern England who is nowhere to be found suggest?
3. Who does not feel like maggots in an infected carcass, as they are regarded in the nicer end of town?
4. At what does Cy marvel?
5. What is the most important thing to remember about the man in question #61?
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