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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Of whom does the tall nurse who sends Cy home remind Cy?
(a) Grace.
(b) Reeda.
(c) Riley.
(d) Claudia.

3. Where does Cy go despite his vows never to return after Lulu's death?
(a) To Central Park.
(b) To uptown Manhatten.
(c) To watch Grace at the circus.
(d) To Ellis Island.

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

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

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

7. What is in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn?
(a) Cy's apartment.
(b) Cy's girlfriend's apartment.
(c) Monty's place.
(d) The licensing agency for tattoo artist.

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

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

10. What requires appalling discipline on Cy's part?
(a) Working on Grace and charging her money for the pleasure.
(b) Not telling Grace he does not approve of her design.
(c) Requesting that Maximus stays home so that Grace is thinking of Cy.
(d) Coming to know Grace's body without surrendering to lust.

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

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

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

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

15. What does a soldier ask Cy about Grace?
(a) If she was there to distract him from the needles.
(b) If she is his girlfriend.
(c) If she is a customer.
(d) From what corner of hell he found her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is Coney Island proof?

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

3. What does Henry notice about the service elevator?

4. Who had left the back door unlocked?

5. Why does America require voyeurism in every attraction?

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