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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 do people know?
(a) Cy is much better than Riley.
(b) There are two freehanders working inside as unequal partners.
(c) Cy is almost better than Riley.
(d) Cy is as good as Riley.

2. What does Reeda think of Riley?
(a) That he is a drunkard, a Catholic and maybe a Bolshevik.
(b) That he is somewhat crazy.
(c) That he is honorable.
(d) That he is dangerous.

3. What does Riley offer Cy?
(a) A few dollars a week to help him.
(b) A truce.
(c) An apprenticeship.
(d) A message for his mother.

4. What happens to Riley at Moffat Revine?
(a) His fingers are shattered.
(b) He gets into a fight and kills a man.
(c) He strikes his head and is amnesiac.
(d) He drowns in the creek.

5. What is an accurate description of the Ladies of Leeds?
(a) Hard-faced, bad-mouthed women.
(b) Ugly spinsters.
(c) Lovely airheads.
(d) Kind, well-dressed, close-knit.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jonty describe Mr. Riley?

2. Why does Cy climb a building?

3. What confuses Cy?

4. Who does Cy recognize?

5. What regularly claims victims among children and tourists?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cy slip into starting to tattoo instead of just watching Riley and what is Riley's response?

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

3. Describe Cy's first encounter with Riley.

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

5. What does Riley tell Cy about Michelangelo?

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

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

8. How does sex figure into Riley's tattoo business?

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

10. How does Reeda die and how does this affect Cy?

(see the answer keys)

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