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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Cy wish his eyes could lie?
(a) So the schoolmaster wouldn't hit him.
(b) So he could look his mama in the face.
(c) So the school bully would leave him alone.
(d) So his troubles would be over.

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

6. What does Cy observe in other people's eyes?
(a) A hunger for simpler times.
(b) A strange new glow as they find ways to work through pain.
(c) A anger at the war's toll.
(d) A despondency.

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

8. Where do Cy and his friends go to watch an effigy of "Kaiser Bill" burn?
(a) Pedder Street.
(b) Pastuer Blvd.
(c) Market Square.
(d) Main Street.

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

10. How does Jonty describe Mr. Riley?
(a) An undesirable papist who buys pigs' heads for ungodly purposes.
(b) A lunatic.
(c) A underworld spy.
(d) A cool tattoo artist.

11. How does Cy respond to what he sees in the basin?
(a) Excitement.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Disgust.
(d) Fear.

12. For what does Cy get in trouble at school?
(a) For sleepin in class.
(b) For eating another student's lunch.
(c) For shooting spitballs.
(d) For asking a question about sex.

13. What can Riley not bear to inscribe on Cy?
(a) Any religious symbols.
(b) The word death.
(c) Reeda's name.
(d) The name of Cy's lover.

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

15. Where does Cy work?
(a) At the stables.
(b) In a print shop in the afternoons.
(c) In a bakery.
(d) In a blacksmith shop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Reeda admit to Cy?

2. Where is Cy's father?

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

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

5. What does a young man working in the parlor of the greatest tattooist in Northern England who is nowhere to be found suggest?

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