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

2. What does Cy's mother say about the sun's light?
(a) That it is brighter when she is brighter.
(b) That it is brightest shining through the mist.
(c) That the sun's light does not go out at night but migrates to Ireland and America.
(d) That it fades into nothing.

3. What has Cy forgotten?
(a) What song his mother used to sing.
(b) How his grandfather used to buy him ice cream when he came visiting.
(c) Why his father went to sea.
(d) Exactly how his mother's face looked.

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

5. What does Cy like around him?
(a) Pretty girls.
(b) His favorite pictures.
(c) Lots of food.
(d) Art supplies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what are Cy's earliest memories?

2. When does Cy advance to freehand images?

3. Why does Cy's mother board these "guests"?

4. What convinces Cy that the first part of his life is ended?

5. When Cy arrives home eyes glazed and gait obstructed, what does Reeda assume?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How do Riley's and Cy's styles differ when starting a job on a client?

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

8. Of what are Cy's earliest memories?

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

10. What experience causes Cy to no longer be able to sleep under tight blankets?

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