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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. For what does Cy get in trouble at school?
(a) For eating another student's lunch.
(b) For shooting spitballs.
(c) For asking a question about sex.
(d) For sleepin in class.

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

3. What do Cy, Jonty and Morris seek?
(a) After school employment.
(b) New ways to escape the town council's rules.
(c) A way to sell their inventions.
(d) A way to get to the far coast.

4. What is a distinct favorite of Cy and his friends?
(a) The ice cream machine.
(b) The cotton candy.
(c) A line of Bathing Beauties parades barer than ever and Gaynor Shearer's erect nipples.
(d) The blaring music.

5. What does Riley offer Cy?
(a) An apprenticeship.
(b) A few dollars a week to help him.
(c) A message for his mother.
(d) A truce.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Cy and his friends go to watch an effigy of "Kaiser Bill" burn?

2. Who does not feel like maggots in an infected carcass, as they are regarded in the nicer end of town?

3. What does the town council do to offenders of their policies?

4. What is a key to the customer's personality?

5. Upon what does the town council frown?

Short Essay Questions

1. What upsets the town council and what is Reeda's response?

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

3. How does sex figure into Riley's tattoo business?

4. How does Riley come to offer Cy an apprenticeship and what is Cy's response?

5. How does the topic of sex give Cy some not-so-great memories?

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

7. There are many instances of foreshadowing in this opening section. Name one and venture a guess as to what it could foreshadow.

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

9. How does Cy's afternoon employment foreshadow his future work?

10. What convinces Cy that the first part of his life has ended?

(see the answer keys)

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