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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cy think Riley may have done while being attacked?
(a) Tried the numbing oriental techniques some clients use under the needle.
(b) Got deathly silent.
(c) Thought about having a drink.
(d) Screamed.

2. What does Cy observe in other people's eyes?
(a) A anger at the war's toll.
(b) A hunger for simpler times.
(c) A strange new glow as they find ways to work through pain.
(d) A despondency.

3. Where do the summer crowds gather?
(a) Around the lake in the park.
(b) In the movie theaters.
(c) In the town's pavilions.
(d) At two local pubs.

4. Upon what does the town council frown?
(a) On boys younger than 10 on the beach without a parent.
(b) On the sick people Cy's mother nurses.
(c) On mixed bathing and skimpy outfits.
(d) On school being closed on Fridays.

5. How does Cy respond to what he sees in the basin?
(a) Disgust.
(b) Fear.
(c) Excitement.
(d) Curiosity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cy begin to do?

2. Why do women trust Riley?

3. Where does Riley take Cy for his first visit to a pub?

4. What does Cy realize about life?

5. Who are Jonty Preston and Morris Gibbs?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cy's apprenticeship fare and what is an important lesson Cy learns?

2. How does Riley explain the colors used in tattooing?

3. What indication is there that "times are changing" even in a small town such as Morecambe? Why do you think this is so?

4. What are some of the contrasting images seen in the very beginning of this book?

5. How does Reeda die and how does this affect Cy?

6. Why do many women come to Riley's tattoo parlor?

7. What does Riley tell Cy about Michelangelo?

8. What do you think is a boggart and how is it used?

9. Describe the type of clients that are often drawn to Riley's tattoo parlor.

10. What does Cy recall as he studies cloud formations and what might this foreshadow?

(see the answer keys)

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