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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. How do women's tattoos differ from men's?
(a) They are usually flowers.
(b) They are smaller and more discreet than men's and entirely personal.
(c) They are more colorful.
(d) They almost always have purple and pink in them.

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

3. What amazes Cy?
(a) That Riley can be drunk and create magnificent tattoos.
(b) That Riley hums hymns while he works.
(c) That Riley seldoms is aroused by his naked female clients.
(d) That someone so flaccid and bawdy can be so intricate and precise in his line work.

4. What does Cy observe as he is searching for shells?
(a) His neighbor hitting his wife.
(b) A boat in the harbor go up in flames.
(c) Jonty and the girl Cy loves kissing.
(d) A plane plunge into the sea.

5. What does Cy realize about life?
(a) That it can be messy and cruel.
(b) That he is old enough to understand the vagaries of life.
(c) That it is always wonderful.
(d) That it is never wonderful.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what do the boys use Muriel's equipment?

2. About what is Riley a stickler?

3. What does Cy not know?

4. What is the most important thing to remember about the man in question #61?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cy's mother Reeda respond to his possible apprenticeship with Riley?

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

3. With what does the young Cy struggle?

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Cy slip into starting to tattoo instead of just watching Riley and what is Riley's response?

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

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