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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cy's mother say about the sun's light?
(a) That the sun's light does not go out at night but migrates to Ireland and America.
(b) That it is brighter when she is brighter.
(c) That it is brightest shining through the mist.
(d) That it fades into nothing.

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

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

4. 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.

5. What has Cy learned?
(a) To size up a skin type by feeling with his eyes closed.
(b) To tattoo without using a drawing.
(c) to fight, evict brawlers, negotiate and be enjoyed by women in the back room.
(d) To sing to keep the women happy.

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

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

8. Why does Cy have to use distilled water to make his inks?
(a) Because of war rationing.
(b) Because Riley is experiementing with a new ink formula.
(c) Because alcohol spirit solutions cannot be safely stored in the cupboard.
(d) Because alcohol spirit solutions have been outlawed.

9. How does Riley die?
(a) Suicide by drinking bleach.
(b) Slips and cracks his head and drowns in the bay.
(c) Hangs himself.
(d) Is murdered by the man who smashes his fingers.

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

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

12. Where does Riley take Cy for his first visit to a pub?
(a) The Dog and Pony Inn.
(b) The Partidge Tree.
(c) The Lion's Den.
(d) The Dog and Partridge.

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

14. Why is Riley offering Cy an apprenticeship?
(a) Because he knew Cy's father.
(b) Because he thinks Cy will turn out to be no good otherwise.
(c) To pass on his artisanship and genius to someone before he dies.
(d) Because he is in love with Cy's mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is Riley protective?

2. What's the only way Riley would consider himself a father figure to Cy?

3. What can Riley not bear to inscribe on Cy?

4. What is an accurate description of the Ladies of Leeds?

5. Who does not feel like maggots in an infected carcass, as they are regarded in the nicer end of town?

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