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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 is Riley offering Cy an apprenticeship?
(a) Because he thinks Cy will turn out to be no good otherwise.
(b) Because he knew Cy's father.
(c) Because he is in love with Cy's mother.
(d) To pass on his artisanship and genius to someone before he dies.

2. What does a young man working in the parlor of the greatest tattooist in Northern England who is nowhere to be found suggest?
(a) Treachery.
(b) Murder.
(c) Laziness on Riley's part.
(d) Deceit.

3. What can Riley accept?
(a) Cy's need for a girlfriend.
(b) Horror, sin, evil and lunacy as truth on a par with the love of God and beatific goodness.
(c) Cy's need to care for his mother.
(d) Riley's need for alcohol.

4. For what does Cy get in trouble at school?
(a) For sleepin in class.
(b) For eating another student's lunch.
(c) For shooting spitballs.
(d) For asking a question about sex.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Ladies of Leeds do?

2. What do Cy, Jonty and Morris seek?

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

4. What is one form of amusement Cy enjoys?

5. Where do Cy and his friends go to watch an effigy of "Kaiser Bill" burn?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the effect of alcohol on Riley?

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

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

8. What does Riley tell Cy about Michelangelo?

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

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

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