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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who is in Cy's tattoo parlor when Grace first visits?
(a) No one.
(b) Six or seven young men in uniform.
(c) A young woman from Queens.
(d) The Brooklyn police.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What does Grace's paper show?
(a) Grace's face on a mermaid.
(b) An unblinking, almost hieroglyphic eye.
(c) A horse rearing.
(d) A horse bowing its two front legs.

14. What do the police think about Henry's story?
(a) It all makes sense.
(b) They think he is drunk and is covering his own alcohol use on work time.
(c) It doesn't add up, but Sedak is incomprehensible.
(d) They know he is lying but don't care.

15. 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 volunteers to help there.
(c) She has a calming effect on the babies.
(d) She actually sneaks in.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had left the back door unlocked?

2. Why does Coney Island offer anything repulsive, breathtaking, or monstrously new that people are willing to pay to see?

3. What does Cy see as a tattoo artist?

4. What is in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn?

5. What is Arturas' moniker?

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