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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cy discover on Riley's body?
(a) A tattoo for every year of Riley's life.
(b) No tattoos.
(c) Fitting verses tattooed on Riley's right sole.
(d) A tribute tattooed to Reeda.

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

3. What does Riley admire about Cy?
(a) His intelligence.
(b) His reticence.
(c) His imagination and dexterity.
(d) His mother.

4. When Cy arrives home eyes glazed and gait obstructed, what does Reeda assume?
(a) He is drunk.
(b) He has overeaten.
(c) He sprained his ankle.
(d) He is ill.

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

6. What does Cy realize about life?
(a) That it can be messy and cruel.
(b) That he is old enough to understand the vagaries of life.
(c) That it is never wonderful.
(d) That it is always wonderful.

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

8. 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 tattoo without using a drawing.
(d) To sing to keep the women happy.

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

10. When does Cy advance to freehand images?
(a) When he is half drunk.
(b) Whenever the "alpha male" is absent or more than one customer awaits one.
(c) When there is no picture for what the customer wants.
(d) When Riley can supervise him.

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

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

13. Why does Riley say that Cy needs to comfort customers?
(a) Because it makes the needles hurt less.
(b) Because they are as much a psychiatrist as artists.
(c) Because some change their minds and flee.
(d) Because customers come there for more than one reason.

14. Who does Cy recognize?
(a) A woman who used to live at the boarding house.
(b) A policeman who accepts bribes from his mother.
(c) Reeba's helper.
(d) A man down the street as the thief who stole his bike.

15. What amazes Cy?
(a) That someone so flaccid and bawdy can be so intricate and precise in his line work.
(b) That Riley hums hymns while he works.
(c) That Riley seldoms is aroused by his naked female clients.
(d) That Riley can be drunk and create magnificent tattoos.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At what does Cy marvel?

3. What has Cy forgotten?

4. What is a key to the customer's personality?

5. Where does Riley take Cy for his first visit to a pub?

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