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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 old is Cy when the book opens?
(a) 10.
(b) 1.
(c) 7.
(d) 15.

2. What does Cy see in the discharge basin one day?
(a) A tattoo design.
(b) Vivid images.
(c) Blood.
(d) A prophesy.

3. Why does Cy wish his eyes could lie?
(a) So the schoolmaster wouldn't hit him.
(b) So the school bully would leave him alone.
(c) So he could look his mama in the face.
(d) So his troubles would be over.

4. What does Cy begin to do?
(a) Create a name for himself.
(b) Have sex with some of the willing customers.
(c) Draw a book of designs.
(d) Tattoo some of Riley's customers.

5. What does Reeda admit to Cy?
(a) That she knows Riley.
(b) That she was once married to Mr. Riley.
(c) That Cy is not her biological son.
(d) That she is performing abortions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With what does Cy decide he needs help?

3. Upon what does the town council frown?

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

5. What do people know?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Riley tell Cy about Michelangelo?

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

4. Describe Riley's death and Cy's response.

5. Describe Cy's first encounter with Riley.

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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