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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cy hear through the window of the building he climbs?
(a) A scream.
(b) Gunshots.
(c) Music.
(d) Mechanical bee sounds and voices.

2. What does Riley offer Cy?
(a) A truce.
(b) A few dollars a week to help him.
(c) A message for his mother.
(d) An apprenticeship.

3. 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 his troubles would be over.
(d) So the schoolmaster wouldn't hit him.

4. Of what is Riley protective?
(a) His pictures.
(b) His privacy.
(c) His self-proclaimed genius.
(d) His tools.

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

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

7. What's the only way Riley would consider himself a father figure to Cy?
(a) If he can bring his fine-legged mother into the equation.
(b) If Cy's mother wants Riley to serve that purpose.
(c) If Cy can beat him in arm wrestling.
(d) If Cy can prove Riley is his real father.

8. What is Muriel's occupation?
(a) A circus performer.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A nurse.
(d) A respected electrotherapist.

9. What does Cy share with his mother?
(a) His wages.
(b) Nothing; he does not really talk to her much anymore.
(c) A worry he has about his father.
(d) A secret about Jonty.

10. 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.

11. About what is Riley a stickler?
(a) Color.
(b) Hygiene.
(c) Payment.
(d) Design.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Riley at Moffat Revine?

2. What does Cy observe as he is searching for shells?

3. What does Cy see in the discharge basin one day?

4. What does Cy's mother say about the sun's light?

5. What are Riley's rules of courtship?

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