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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Arturas' moniker?
(a) G-man.
(b) Black Baron.
(c) Bozo.
(d) Snoopy.

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

3. With what is Coney Island drunk?
(a) With life.
(b) With youth.
(c) With the idea of freedom to be.
(d) With vulgarity, surrealism and pure stimulation.

4. Why does Coney Island offer anything repulsive, breathtaking, or monstrously new that people are willing to pay to see?
(a) Because it is they only way for misfits to earn a living.
(b) Because it is Coney Island.
(c) Because it is materialistic.
(d) Because it is consumer driven.

5. Where is Cy when "Babylon in Brooklyn" opens?
(a) In San Francisco.
(b) In Italy.
(c) On Coney Island.
(d) In England.

6. Who sports orange hair and smudged black eyes and wears an oversized dress?
(a) Mia.
(b) Annamarie.
(c) Jessie.
(d) Claudia.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What does Cy do as Grace walks away?
(a) He wrecks his shop.
(b) He gets his gun out of the drawer.
(c) He prepares to tattoo an eye on his arm.
(d) He lets out a wolf-like howl and slumps to the ground.

13. Who had left the back door unlocked?
(a) The guard.
(b) Henry.
(c) Sedak.
(d) No one; the lock is broken.

14. What is the poor man's illustrator?
(a) Paintings on velvet.
(b) Tattooists.
(c) Graffiti.
(d) The almanac.

15. About what do the soldiers clown around with Grace?
(a) Sex.
(b) Her horse.
(c) Pictures of mermaids.
(d) Needles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cy do when Grace stands naked before him for the first time since the assault?

2. Of what is Coney Island proof?

3. How does Cy know his neighbors' names?

4. What does Cy offer Nina?

5. What does Cy realize about the skin after the doctor talks to him?

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