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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the town council do to offenders of their policies?
(a) Publishes the names of offenders.
(b) Fines them.
(c) Makes them pick litter off the beach.
(d) Gives them community service.

4. Where is Cy's father?
(a) He is at war in Germany.
(b) He was lost years ago at sea.
(c) He is at work at the docks.
(d) He is in America working to bring them over.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the most important thing to remember about the man in question #61?
(a) He had a vision no one else could understand.
(b) He had a hard time getting blue paint to use on special things.
(c) He was a good man.
(d) He lived 89 years.

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

12. How do women's tattoos differ from men's?
(a) They almost always have purple and pink in them.
(b) They are smaller and more discreet than men's and entirely personal.
(c) They are usually flowers.
(d) They are more colorful.

13. What do tattoos eventually become?
(a) Sexually appealing.
(b) An aggravation.
(c) Just another part of the anatomy.
(d) Famous.

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

15. When does Cy advance to freehand images?
(a) When Riley can supervise him.
(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 he is half drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cy's mother say about the sun's light?

2. Where does Cy work?

3. What does Cy share with his mother?

4. About whom does Riley lecture Cy?

5. How old is Cy when the book opens?

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