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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. Who are Jonty Preston and Morris Gibbs?
(a) Two bullies who regularly beat up Cy.
(b) Cy's two best friends.
(c) Cy's two step brothers.
(d) Cy's two uncles.

2. What convinces Cy that the first part of his life is ended?
(a) When Jonty drowns in the tide.
(b) When Cy falls in love.
(c) When his mother dies.
(d) When Aurora Borealis, the "northern bloodlights," appear over the town.

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

4. What does Riley tattoo on Cy's chest?
(a) A butterfly.
(b) A sailing ship with his dead father's name strung in the rigging.
(c) A ball and chain.
(d) A skull.

5. Who does not feel like maggots in an infected carcass, as they are regarded in the nicer end of town?
(a) Sailors.
(b) Prostitutes.
(c) Visitors to Riley's tattoo parlour.
(d) Jonty and Cy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cy not know?

2. Upon what does the town council frown?

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

4. What does Cy like around him?

5. With what does Cy decide he needs help?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. With what does the young Cy struggle?

3. What does Riley tell Cy about Michelangelo?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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