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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Cy, Jonty and Morris seek?
(a) A way to sell their inventions.
(b) After school employment.
(c) New ways to escape the town council's rules.
(d) A way to get to the far coast.

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

3. What does Riley accomplish in a year?
(a) Creates a whole book of designs.
(b) Changes his studio decorations.
(c) Teaches Cy the rest of what Riley knows.
(d) Wills himself to death by alcohol, depression and starvation.

4. Who does not feel like maggots in an infected carcass, as they are regarded in the nicer end of town?
(a) Visitors to Riley's tattoo parlour.
(b) Jonty and Cy.
(c) Prostitutes.
(d) Sailors.

5. What does Cy begin to do?
(a) Have sex with some of the willing customers.
(b) Create a name for himself.
(c) Tattoo some of Riley's customers.
(d) Draw a book of designs.

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

7. What does the town council do to offenders of their policies?
(a) Fines them.
(b) Makes them pick litter off the beach.
(c) Gives them community service.
(d) Publishes the names of offenders.

8. What do tattoos eventually become?
(a) Just another part of the anatomy.
(b) Famous.
(c) An aggravation.
(d) Sexually appealing.

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

10. From what do most of the boarders at Cy's home suffer?
(a) Syphilis.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Arthritis.
(d) Old Age.

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

12. Where does Riley want to be buried?
(a) At the hillside cemetary.
(b) In his homeland of Russia.
(c) At sea.
(d) He wants to be cremated.

13. Why do women trust Riley?
(a) He greatly respects women.
(b) He is a eunuch.
(c) He is homosexual.
(d) His equipment is sterile and his hard-drinking habits do not enter his studio.

14. What has Cy learned?
(a) to fight, evict brawlers, negotiate and be enjoyed by women in the back room.
(b) To size up a skin type by feeling with his eyes closed.
(c) To sing to keep the women happy.
(d) To tattoo without using a drawing.

15. What has Cy forgotten?
(a) Why his father went to sea.
(b) How his grandfather used to buy him ice cream when he came visiting.
(c) Exactly how his mother's face looked.
(d) What song his mother used to sing.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Cy arrives home eyes glazed and gait obstructed, what does Reeda assume?

2. What's the only way Riley would consider himself a father figure to Cy?

3. How does Cy respond to what he sees in the basin?

4. Who slices the rope?

5. What does Riley admire about Cy?

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