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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who has taken care of the horse?
(a) Vivian.
(b) Arturas.
(c) Claudia.
(d) One of the soldiers.

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

4. With what is Claudia obsessed?
(a) With Grace's chess-playing style.
(b) With Maximus's velvet nose.
(c) With Coney Island's macabre and tasteless baby incubation exhibition.
(d) With Grace's will to win.

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

6. Where does Cy go after he is thrown out of the hospital?
(a) To the wharf to jump off.
(b) To drink himself into a stupor at Varga's.
(c) To check on Maximus.
(d) To try to find Grace's sister.

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

8. What has Claudia been doing for eight years?
(a) Raising children.
(b) Displaying at the Human Picture Gallery while performing feats of strength that enthrall the public.
(c) Working as a scully maid.
(d) Helping her husband create tattoo art.

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

10. Why does the management of the baby incubation exhibition allow Grace to come in for free?
(a) To coax her friend, Claudia, to leave.
(b) She has a calming effect on the babies.
(c) She volunteers to help there.
(d) She actually sneaks in.

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

12. Where is Cy in 1946?
(a) Killed in the war.
(b) Back at Coney Island.
(c) In Southern California with Claudia and Arturas.
(d) Back at Pedder Street.

13. Who owns the Varga Oyster Bar?
(a) Arturas and Claudia Overas.
(b) Den Jones.
(c) Henry Beausang.
(d) Siamese-twins Mary and Valerie.

14. What does a voice advise a soldier to do while he is getting a tattoo?
(a) To pant.
(b) To think about things that make him fall asleep so he will no longer be in his body.
(c) To smoke some hash.
(d) To focus on making his breathing slow and easy.

15. Why does Cy stay at the hospital?
(a) He is afraid the assailant will try again.
(b) He believes that if he doesn't stay, Grace will think he doesn't love her.
(c) He believes that if he leaves Grace will die.
(d) He hopes to sneak in to touch Grace.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Grace need help?

2. Who is Lulu?

3. What do the police find when they go to Cy's tattoo parlor?

4. What is the poor man's illustrator?

5. Where is Cy when "Babylon in Brooklyn" opens?

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