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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Grace reassure Cy about her body?
(a) Tells him that just knowing he was visiting Maximus made her feel better.
(b) Has him touch her scars.
(c) Tells him doctors can do amazing things with skin grafts.
(d) Tells him she no longer feels pain.

2. Who is going to care for Maximus?
(a) Claudia.
(b) The circus trainer.
(c) Arturas.
(d) Cy.

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

4. Why is Claudia obsessed with the baby incubation exhibition?
(a) She has never been pregnant.
(b) She thinks it's where angels dwell.
(c) She likes to sing to the babies.
(d) She has had six miscarriages.

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

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

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

9. What does Cy assume all newcomers to New York feel?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Overwhelmed.
(c) Sorrowful.
(d) Excited.

10. Who is Arturas?
(a) A stevedore.
(b) An acrobat.
(c) A cart man.
(d) The best tattoo artist in New York.

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

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

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

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

15. What does Cy decide he needs while looking at the design on paper that Grace hands him?
(a) Advice from Arturas.
(b) Grace there to explain it.
(c) Advice from Claudia.
(d) A strong drink.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a tattooist's paradise and can easily accommodate more artists?

2. What does Henry find when he climbs the floor to where Sedak is held?

3. What do the skyscrapers do to Cy?

4. What does Cy do when he visits Maximus?

5. After hearing Grace talk, what does Cy wonder about her?

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