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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What convinces Cy that the first part of his life is ended?
(a) When Aurora Borealis, the "northern bloodlights," appear over the town.
(b) When Cy falls in love.
(c) When his mother dies.
(d) When Jonty drowns in the tide.

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

3. What is a key to the customer's personality?
(a) The scent of the skin.
(b) The color choices.
(c) The way the customer reacts to pain.
(d) The choice of pictures.

4. With what does Cy decide he needs help?
(a) Learning how to do tattoos.
(b) His chemistry homework.
(c) Wooing the girl with whom he is in love.
(d) Getting to America.

5. What does Cy observe as he is searching for shells?
(a) His neighbor hitting his wife.
(b) Jonty and the girl Cy loves kissing.
(c) A plane plunge into the sea.
(d) A boat in the harbor go up in flames.

6. What is Riley's tenth commandment?
(a) Thou shalt get paid.
(b) Thou shalt get used to it.
(c) Thou shalt have sex if that is the customer's need.
(d) Thou shalt not feel guilty.

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

8. What do the Ladies of Leeds do?
(a) Prostitutes.
(b) They are nuns and they pray for the ill at Cy's home.
(c) Circus performers.
(d) Join Reeda in collecting meager alms and votes.

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

10. 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.

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

12. For what do the boys use Muriel's equipment?
(a) To watch the ships in the harbor.
(b) To jolt each other in the arm.
(c) To experience a splendid rush of energy.
(d) To check their heartbeats.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Cy advance to freehand images?

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

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

4. Why do women trust Riley?

5. What does Cy realize about life?

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