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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Claudia do to Grace's assailant?
(a) Pours acid on him.
(b) Nearly beats him to death.
(c) Stabs him to death.
(d) Ties him up for the police.

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

3. Who is Malcolm Sedak?
(a) The man who burns Grace with acid.
(b) A man who loses one hundred dollars in a chess game to Grace.
(c) The man who saves Grace from a man who attacks her.
(d) A man who sues Cy for a bad tattoo job.

4. Who sports orange hair and smudged black eyes and wears an oversized dress?
(a) Claudia.
(b) Jessie.
(c) Annamarie.
(d) Mia.

5. Who are Grace and Maximus?
(a) A woman and her monkey who live in apartment 104 in Cy's apartment complex.
(b) The woman and her horse who live in apartment 104 in Cy's apartment complex.
(c) A woman and her horse who Cy knew in his homeland.
(d) A man and his wife who own an arcade on Coney Island.

6. What is Arturas' moniker?
(a) G-man.
(b) Snoopy.
(c) Black Baron.
(d) Bozo.

7. After hearing Grace talk, what does Cy wonder about her?
(a) If she is insane.
(b) If she could be an orphan of the Great War.
(c) Why she would carry on in such a manner.
(d) If she is making it all up.

8. Why does Cy advise the soldiers to go wash down their arms?
(a) Cy advises them not to wash their arms.
(b) So the blood will not ruin their uniforms.
(c) So he doesn't have to go draw more water from next door.
(d) So no muck will get into their bloodstreams.

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

10. How has Riley eclipsed Reeda?
(a) In the little aphorisms Cy remembers of Riley's.
(b) In that Cy can still see Riley's face in his mind.
(c) He has not eclipsed Reeda.
(d) As Cy's chief means of reckoning.

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

12. With what is Coney Island drunk?
(a) With life.
(b) With youth.
(c) With the idea of freedom to be.
(d) With vulgarity, surrealism and pure stimulation.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do mothers drop off their babies at the incubation exhibition?

2. How can Cy draw mermaids?

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

4. Who had left the back door unlocked?

5. What does life in the Bayview teach Cy?

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