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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. What is in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn?
(a) Cy's apartment.
(b) Cy's girlfriend's apartment.
(c) Monty's place.
(d) The licensing agency for tattoo artist.

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

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

6. What happens on Cy's 65th birthday?
(a) He returns to America.
(b) Nina Shearer waltzes into his shop.
(c) He decides to quit tattooing since it isn't popular anymore.
(d) He dies.

7. Why does Cy skip lunch the next day?
(a) So he won't miss Grace should she show up.
(b) He is not hungry.
(c) He is on a restricted-calorie diet.
(d) He is still suffering the effects of the tainted hot dog of yesterday.

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

9. When does Cy meet Arturas and Claudia Overas?
(a) When buying his first batch of ink.
(b) When he almost gets hit by a taxi.
(c) When he hangs out his sign on his shop.
(d) When he rents his apartment.

10. What is Grace doing as Cy is finishing with the soldier?
(a) Browsing through a book of flash.
(b) Combing her hair.
(c) Flirting with the other soldiers.
(d) Suggesting appropriate tattoos for each soldier.

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

12. What does Cy do when he visits Maximus?
(a) Talks to him about his plans to move back to Europe.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Assures him of Grace's love.
(d) Grooms him.

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

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

15. What drawing does Cy search for and find near the end of the book?
(a) His first mermaid.
(b) A woman on a dancing horse.
(c) A flying horse.
(d) An ancient eye.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cy know his neighbors' names?

2. What is Grace's attacker's plan?

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

4. How does Grace reassure Cy about her body?

5. What does Cy do as Grace walks away?

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