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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Claudia and Arturas decide to move and work?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) The Pacific Northwest.
(c) The California beaches.
(d) Florida.

2. What is the largest amusement park on earth?
(a) The Brooklyn Boardwalk.
(b) Central Park.
(c) Park Place.
(d) Coney Island.

3. 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 no muck will get into their bloodstreams.
(d) So he doesn't have to go draw more water from next door.

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

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

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

7. What is the first touch between Cy and Grace like?
(a) Unnerving.
(b) Empty of emotion.
(c) Exciting.
(d) Calming.

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

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

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

11. What do the skyscrapers do to Cy?
(a) They give him a kink in his neck as he constantly looks up.
(b) They make him think he is in heaven.
(c) They seem to pull him up through the sky and out into space.
(d) They scare him.

12. Who does Cy watch at Varga's?
(a) Two men downing snapps and arm wrestling.
(b) Grace playing chess.
(c) The twins having a drinking contest.
(d) A man and woman having a loud argument.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sports orange hair and smudged black eyes and wears an oversized dress?

2. In what condition do they find Sedak?

3. Who are Grace and Maximus?

4. Where does Cy go despite his vows never to return after Lulu's death?

5. Why does Cy stay at the hospital?

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