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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Lulu?
(a) A tightrope walker.
(b) The gentle performing elephant that accidentally crushes a man to death.
(c) A bareback trick rider.
(d) One of the co-joined twins.

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

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

4. What does Cy do when Grace stands naked before him for the first time since the assault?
(a) Cy turns away unable to look at her.
(b) Cy holds her in his arms for an hour.
(c) Cy slams his hands down and swears to kill the assailant.
(d) Cy cannot control his horror and weeps uncontrollably.

5. What can cost two-thirds of one's tattoo business?
(a) Closing on rainy days.
(b) Dirt in the parlour.
(c) Not having enough pictures.
(d) Having dull needles.

6. How can Cy gain insights into Grace's personality?
(a) He can quiz chess devotees unobtrusively about Grace's strategy.
(b) He can ask Maximus.
(c) He can watch Grace perform.
(d) He can read some psychology books in the library.

7. About what do the soldiers clown around with Grace?
(a) Sex.
(b) Pictures of mermaids.
(c) Her horse.
(d) Needles.

8. Who takes Cy's tattoo equipment?
(a) A Latino gang.
(b) The mafia.
(c) The cops.
(d) Three ruffians.

9. How can Cy draw mermaids?
(a) By comparing them to Venus de Milo.
(b) With his left hand.
(c) With his eyes closed.
(d) In a variety of provocative, sultry, saucy poses.

10. What does Grace describe in graphic details to the soldiers?
(a) What would happen to them if they touch her horse.
(b) What she would be willing to do with them.
(c) What it's like to be in a real battle.
(d) Nothing; their presence overwhelms her.

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

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

13. What does Cy do as Grace walks away?
(a) He prepares to tattoo an eye on his arm.
(b) He wrecks his shop.
(c) He lets out a wolf-like howl and slumps to the ground.
(d) He gets his gun out of the drawer.

14. Why do the police close Sedak's file?
(a) They find the culprits.
(b) They think the assailants are dead.
(c) No one really cares about what happened.
(d) They think Sedak insanely hurt himself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Coney Island offer anything repulsive, breathtaking, or monstrously new that people are willing to pay to see?

2. Why does Grace say she will find Cy soon?

3. How does Cy know his neighbors' names?

4. Who is Malcolm Sedak?

5. Why does America require voyeurism in every attraction?

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