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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What bounces off Claudia like hail from an ox's rump?
(a) Cruelty about her non-female form.
(b) Insults about her husband's ugly features.
(c) Praise for her tattoos.
(d) Sexual innuendos.

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

3. What happens on Cy's 65th birthday?
(a) Nina Shearer waltzes into his shop.
(b) He dies.
(c) He decides to quit tattooing since it isn't popular anymore.
(d) He returns to America.

4. What does Cy offer Nina?
(a) A scholarship.
(b) Nothing.
(c) An apprenticeship.
(d) A free tattoo.

5. What does Cy assume all newcomers to New York feel?
(a) Excited.
(b) Sorrowful.
(c) Overwhelmed.
(d) Depressed.

6. What do the police find when they go to Cy's tattoo parlor?
(a) He has fled with his belongings out of the country.
(b) He has hanged himself.
(c) A note explaining his actions against Sedak.
(d) The parlor is completely wrecked.

7. When does Cy meet Arturas and Claudia Overas?
(a) When he hangs out his sign on his shop.
(b) When he almost gets hit by a taxi.
(c) When he rents his apartment.
(d) When buying his first batch of ink.

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

9. What is Grace's attacker's plan?
(a) To make Grace forever deformed.
(b) To kill Grace.
(c) To bring Grace's body back to God's original purity of naked cleanness.
(d) To make Grace never play chess again.

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

11. How can Cy draw mermaids?
(a) By comparing them to Venus de Milo.
(b) With his left hand.
(c) With his eyes closed.
(d) In a variety of provocative, sultry, saucy poses.

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

13. Why do tattooists stand apart from the tricksters and freaks?
(a) They develop a true rapport with their customers.
(b) They are seen as somehow genuine and timeless.
(c) They have to have a license.
(d) They do everything in the open.

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

15. Why has Cy never married?
(a) He is still waiting for the right woman.
(b) He doesn't know why.
(c) He decides women are too much trouble.
(d) He still loves Grace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grace's paper show?

2. With what is Claudia obsessed?

3. Who is Malcolm Sedak?

4. What does Cy do when he visits Maximus?

5. What is the poor man's illustrator?

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