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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Cy know his neighbors' names?
(a) By the name tags on their various work shirts.
(b) By creating a rhyme of them.
(c) By the sounds of their accents.
(d) From letters in the foyer mail slots and the smells coming from beneath their doors.

2. Who is Lulu?
(a) A bareback trick rider.
(b) A tightrope walker.
(c) The gentle performing elephant that accidentally crushes a man to death.
(d) One of the co-joined twins.

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

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

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

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

7. Who does Cy watch at Varga's?
(a) A man and woman having a loud argument.
(b) Grace playing chess.
(c) Two men downing snapps and arm wrestling.
(d) The twins having a drinking contest.

8. Of what is Coney Island proof?
(a) That human depravity is alive and well.
(b) That the stranger one is the more money one can make.
(c) That the Victorian era cannot conjure out the black Gothic soul or suppress its darker energy.
(d) That freedom to be eccentric exists.

9. By what is Grace hypnotized?
(a) The murmer of Cy as he reassures his client.
(b) The sound of Cy humming a hymn.
(c) The sound of the waves rolling on the beach.
(d) The sound of the mechanical embroidery.

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

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

12. Why does Grace say she will find Cy soon?
(a) She is too tired for his kiss that night.
(b) She is teasing him.
(c) She needs his help.
(d) She wants to get rid of him at the moment.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the management of the baby incubation exhibition allow Grace to come in for free?

2. Who owns the Varga Oyster Bar?

3. What happens as Grace lies in the hospital?

4. Why does Cy stay at the hospital?

5. What does Cy do as Grace walks away?

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