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

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

4. What does Grace describe in graphic details to the soldiers?
(a) What it's like to be in a real battle.
(b) What would happen to them if they touch her horse.
(c) What she would be willing to do with them.
(d) Nothing; their presence overwhelms her.

5. What is the largest amusement park on earth?
(a) Central Park.
(b) Park Place.
(c) The Brooklyn Boardwalk.
(d) Coney Island.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. What does Claudia do to Grace's assailant?
(a) Pours acid on him.
(b) Stabs him to death.
(c) Ties him up for the police.
(d) Nearly beats him to death.

15. What is a tattooist's paradise and can easily accommodate more artists?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Boston.
(c) Coney Island.
(d) Manhatten.