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

3. What is different about Cy's mom from Cy?
(a) Reeda Parks can see beyond the horror of the sick people in ways her son cannot.
(b) She had a loving, normal home, but Cy is raised in a boarding house of sick people.
(c) She is a Russian, whereas Cy is born in Italy.
(d) She speaks ten languages and Cy only one.

4. What can Riley accept?
(a) Cy's need to care for his mother.
(b) Cy's need for a girlfriend.
(c) Riley's need for alcohol.
(d) Horror, sin, evil and lunacy as truth on a par with the love of God and beatific goodness.

5. What are Riley's rules of courtship?
(a) To keep his professional life and sexual life seperate.
(b) To slap, grip, fist and dog-mount women.
(c) To treat them tenderly under the needle and harshly under him.
(d) To court for at least a day before sex.

6. What does Riley come to understand while at sea?
(a) His grandfather had been right to keep his mother from following his father to sea.
(b) His father was right about the ocean.
(c) Tattooing is a siren song and the music of the spheres, impossible to resist or explain.
(d) That Riley understood the psychological rationale of tattooing.

7. Why is Riley offering Cy an apprenticeship?
(a) Because he thinks Cy will turn out to be no good otherwise.
(b) To pass on his artisanship and genius to someone before he dies.
(c) Because he is in love with Cy's mother.
(d) Because he knew Cy's father.

8. 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 Cy falls in love.
(d) When his mother dies.

9. Who slices the rope?
(a) A woman with a machete.
(b) His friends.
(c) An angry looking man.
(d) A policeman.

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

11. What does Riley admire about Cy?
(a) His intelligence.
(b) His mother.
(c) His imagination and dexterity.
(d) His reticence.

12. Where do the summer crowds gather?
(a) In the movie theaters.
(b) Around the lake in the park.
(c) In the town's pavilions.
(d) At two local pubs.

13. 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.

14. How does Cy's routine begin?
(a) By tapping three times on the table for luck.
(b) By singing a song to himself.
(c) With the question, "Ready?"
(d) By outlining in pencil the work area.

15. What does Cy think Riley may have done while being attacked?
(a) Tried the numbing oriental techniques some clients use under the needle.
(b) Thought about having a drink.
(c) Got deathly silent.
(d) Screamed.