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

3. Why does Cy climb a building?
(a) To race ahead off the crowd across the rooftops.
(b) To see the burning better.
(c) To hack the villain loose from a flagpole.
(d) To find his mother in the crowd.

4. With whom does Cy fall in love?
(a) Eva Brennan.
(b) Eva von Braun.
(c) Estelle Baker.
(d) Essie Jones.

5. Who are Jonty Preston and Morris Gibbs?
(a) Cy's two best friends.
(b) Two bullies who regularly beat up Cy.
(c) Cy's two step brothers.
(d) Cy's two uncles.

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

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

8. What is one form of amusement Cy enjoys?
(a) Riding bareback on a circus horse.
(b) Weekly piddling competitions on the beach.
(c) Wrestling with Monty's sister.
(d) Riding his bike inside school hallways.

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

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

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

12. What does Riley accomplish in a year?
(a) Teaches Cy the rest of what Riley knows.
(b) Creates a whole book of designs.
(c) Wills himself to death by alcohol, depression and starvation.
(d) Changes his studio decorations.

13. What are Riley's rules of courtship?
(a) To keep his professional life and sexual life seperate.
(b) To court for at least a day before sex.
(c) To treat them tenderly under the needle and harshly under him.
(d) To slap, grip, fist and dog-mount women.

14. What does Cy see in the discharge basin one day?
(a) A prophesy.
(b) A tattoo design.
(c) Blood.
(d) Vivid images.

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