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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. Why do women trust Riley?
(a) His equipment is sterile and his hard-drinking habits do not enter his studio.
(b) He is homosexual.
(c) He greatly respects women.
(d) He is a eunuch.

2. Why does Cy climb a building?
(a) To hack the villain loose from a flagpole.
(b) To find his mother in the crowd.
(c) To race ahead off the crowd across the rooftops.
(d) To see the burning better.

3. Who does Cy recognize?
(a) A woman who used to live at the boarding house.
(b) A man down the street as the thief who stole his bike.
(c) A policeman who accepts bribes from his mother.
(d) Reeba's helper.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Cy forgotten?

2. How old is Cy when the book opens?

3. What does Reeda think of Riley?

4. Where do the summer crowds gather?

5. What regularly claims victims among children and tourists?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Of what are Cy's earliest memories?

3. What is the effect of alcohol on Riley?

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

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

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

7. What does Riley tell Cy about Michelangelo?

8. With what does the young Cy struggle?

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

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

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