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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the police find when they go to Cy's tattoo parlor?
(a) He has hanged himself.
(b) A note explaining his actions against Sedak.
(c) The parlor is completely wrecked.
(d) He has fled with his belongings out of the country.

2. Why do tattooists stand apart from the tricksters and freaks?
(a) They have to have a license.
(b) They are seen as somehow genuine and timeless.
(c) They develop a true rapport with their customers.
(d) They do everything in the open.

3. What does Cy see as a tattoo artist?
(a) He sees that all people are grey.
(b) He understands a person's story changes.
(c) He understands that people want to claim their bodies as their own site on which to tell about themselves.
(d) He sees that people are set in their ways as strongly as a tattoo is set in the skin.

4. What is Grace's attacker's plan?
(a) To make Grace never play chess again.
(b) To make Grace forever deformed.
(c) To bring Grace's body back to God's original purity of naked cleanness.
(d) To kill Grace.

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

6. What does Grace request of Cy?
(a) That he go away with her.
(b) That he not try to find her.
(c) That he stop being sad.
(d) That he met her at the fountain and is sober.

7. What does Grace's paper show?
(a) A horse bowing its two front legs.
(b) A horse rearing.
(c) Grace's face on a mermaid.
(d) An unblinking, almost hieroglyphic eye.

8. What bounces off Claudia like hail from an ox's rump?
(a) Praise for her tattoos.
(b) Cruelty about her non-female form.
(c) Insults about her husband's ugly features.
(d) Sexual innuendos.

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

10. What does Jonesy think is keeping the ladies away from Cy?
(a) His gruff manner.
(b) His rough handling of them.
(c) Cy's throwback to the 19th-century look is keeping the ladies away.
(d) His lack of nice clothes.

11. With what does Grace need help?
(a) Applying for disability.
(b) Riding Maximus.
(c) Applying ointment to her skin.
(d) Finding a new apartment.

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

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

14. Of what does Cy ask confirmation from Grace?
(a) That she can afford a tattoo.
(b) That her horse will not have to come inside the parlor.
(c) That she will exchange sex for tattoos.
(d) That she wants a full-body tattoo.

15. What hums perpetually, eliciting screams?
(a) Electric rides.
(b) The generators on the boardwalk.
(c) The hawkers on the boardwalk.
(d) The wires strung overhead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does America require voyeurism in every attraction?

2. What is Grace doing as Cy is finishing with the soldier?

3. Why is Claudia obsessed with the baby incubation exhibition?

4. Who is Malcolm Sedak?

5. What does Coney Island "allow"?

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