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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What seems preordained in Cy's way of thinking?
(a) Being an artist.
(b) Pairing Grace and Maximus.
(c) Finding a wife.
(d) Pairing Grace and love.

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

3. Why do mothers drop off their babies at the incubation exhibition?
(a) They hope the baby will die faster there.
(b) They are hopeful the babies will grow into healthy, hungry, crying beings.
(c) They cannot care for them at home.
(d) They have to by law.

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

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

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

7. What does Coney Island "allow"?
(a) Unsafe rides on the ferris wheel.
(b) Drunks to sleep stretched out across the sidewalk.
(c) Pickpocketing if not much is stolen.
(d) Visitors to act out as they would not at home.

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

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

10. What does Cy realize about the skin after the doctor talks to him?
(a) It is as vital to life as the loving heart.
(b) It defines who a person is.
(c) It is an ever-changing landscape.
(d) It is as beautiful plain as adorned.

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

12. When Cy walks Grace home when he first meets her, what does he think about at the door?
(a) Cy wonders why he is always so shy around women outside of his tattoo parlour.
(b) Cy thinks about Riley's way of treating women.
(c) Cy wonders if he should kiss her and whether he is drunk enough to try.
(d) Cy thinks about how much Grace looks like his mother.

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

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

15. What does Grace request of Cy?
(a) That he go away with her.
(b) That he not try to find her.
(c) That he met her at the fountain and is sober.
(d) That he stop being sad.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens on Cy's 65th birthday?

3. What does Cy offer Nina?

4. What happens as Grace lies in the hospital?

5. Who are Grace and Maximus?

(see the answer keys)

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