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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why has Cy never married?
(a) He doesn't know why.
(b) He is still waiting for the right woman.
(c) He still loves Grace.
(d) He decides women are too much trouble.

2. What does Cy assume all newcomers to New York feel?
(a) Sorrowful.
(b) Overwhelmed.
(c) Excited.
(d) Depressed.

3. Who is in Cy's tattoo parlor when Grace first visits?
(a) The Brooklyn police.
(b) No one.
(c) Six or seven young men in uniform.
(d) A young woman from Queens.

4. Of whom does the tall nurse who sends Cy home remind Cy?
(a) Riley.
(b) Claudia.
(c) Grace.
(d) Reeda.

5. Of what is Coney Island proof?
(a) That freedom to be eccentric exists.
(b) That the stranger one is the more money one can make.
(c) That the Victorian era cannot conjure out the black Gothic soul or suppress its darker energy.
(d) That human depravity is alive and well.

6. Why is Claudia obsessed with the baby incubation exhibition?
(a) She has had six miscarriages.
(b) She thinks it's where angels dwell.
(c) She has never been pregnant.
(d) She likes to sing to the babies.

7. What happens as Grace lies in the hospital?
(a) Her assailant is killed by a Coney Island mob.
(b) Her horse dies.
(c) The assault becomes the talk of Coney Island.
(d) Her assailant is sentenced to forty years in prison.

8. What is a tattooist's paradise and can easily accommodate more artists?
(a) Manhatten.
(b) Boston.
(c) Coney Island.
(d) San Francisco.

9. What has Claudia been doing for eight years?
(a) Displaying at the Human Picture Gallery while performing feats of strength that enthrall the public.
(b) Helping her husband create tattoo art.
(c) Working as a scully maid.
(d) Raising children.

10. Where does Cy go despite his vows never to return after Lulu's death?
(a) To Ellis Island.
(b) To Central Park.
(c) To uptown Manhatten.
(d) To watch Grace at the circus.

11. In what condition do they find Sedak?
(a) Fine except a small eye tattoo.
(b) Dead.
(c) Gone.
(d) Burned and blinded.

12. What does Cy think he sees in an apartment below him?
(a) An alligator on the window seat.
(b) A mermaid.
(c) A tiger in a cage.
(d) A horse eating hay.

13. What requires appalling discipline on Cy's part?
(a) Not telling Grace he does not approve of her design.
(b) Working on Grace and charging her money for the pleasure.
(c) Coming to know Grace's body without surrendering to lust.
(d) Requesting that Maximus stays home so that Grace is thinking of Cy.

14. What does the city seem to generate?
(a) The energy of illumination from within.
(b) Languor.
(c) Crime.
(d) Excitement.

15. Who is going to care for Maximus?
(a) Claudia.
(b) The circus trainer.
(c) Cy.
(d) Arturas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the poor man's illustrator?

2. What do the police think about Henry's story?

3. What does Cy do when he visits Maximus?

4. How does Claudia describe Grace?

5. What does Grace's paper show?

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