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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an accurate description of the Ladies of Leeds?
(a) Lovely airheads.
(b) Ugly spinsters.
(c) Hard-faced, bad-mouthed women.
(d) Kind, well-dressed, close-knit.

2. For what does Cy use the last of Reeda's money?
(a) A sea coffin for Riley.
(b) To refurbish his tattoo parlour.
(c) To buy a third-class ticket to America.
(d) To send Riley's body to Russia.

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

4. What does a young man working in the parlor of the greatest tattooist in Northern England who is nowhere to be found suggest?
(a) Treachery.
(b) Murder.
(c) Laziness on Riley's part.
(d) Deceit.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What does Cy like around him?
(a) Pretty girls.
(b) Lots of food.
(c) His favorite pictures.
(d) Art supplies.

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

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

14. What does Riley tattoo on Cy's chest?
(a) A butterfly.
(b) A sailing ship with his dead father's name strung in the rigging.
(c) A ball and chain.
(d) A skull.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Riley offer Cy?

2. What amazes Cy?

3. How does Cy's routine begin?

4. Why is Riley offering Cy an apprenticeship?

5. Upon what does the town council frown?

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