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

2. Where does Riley want to be buried?
(a) He wants to be cremated.
(b) At sea.
(c) In his homeland of Russia.
(d) At the hillside cemetary.

3. What is a key to the customer's personality?
(a) The color choices.
(b) The scent of the skin.
(c) The choice of pictures.
(d) The way the customer reacts to pain.

4. How does Riley die?
(a) Hangs himself.
(b) Suicide by drinking bleach.
(c) Slips and cracks his head and drowns in the bay.
(d) Is murdered by the man who smashes his fingers.

5. What do people know?
(a) Cy is almost better than Riley.
(b) Cy is much better than Riley.
(c) There are two freehanders working inside as unequal partners.
(d) Cy is as good as Riley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Cy recognize?

2. What happens when Cy breaks the glass?

3. How does Cy's routine begin?

4. What does Riley come to understand while at sea?

5. How old is Cy when the book opens?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Riley tell Cy about Michelangelo?

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

3. What marks Cy's transition from boyhood to manhood?

4. What does Jonty say about Riley; is it likely to be true?

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

6. What major theme is touched upon in this chapter and how is it expressed here?

7. Of what are Cy's earliest memories?

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

9. With what does the young Cy struggle?

10. Describe Cy's first interest in a girl and why it is disappointing.

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