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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. Where does Riley want to be buried?
(a) He wants to be cremated.
(b) In his homeland of Russia.
(c) At sea.
(d) At the hillside cemetary.

2. What is a key to the customer's personality?
(a) The color choices.
(b) The way the customer reacts to pain.
(c) The scent of the skin.
(d) The choice of pictures.

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

4. Who is Muriel?
(a) Reeda's secret partner.
(b) Morris's mother.
(c) Reeda's lover.
(d) Reeda's older sister.

5. What does Riley admire about Cy?
(a) His imagination and dexterity.
(b) His mother.
(c) His intelligence.
(d) His reticence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Cy climb a building?

2. What does Cy discover on Riley's body?

3. What does Cy's mother say about the sun's light?

4. What is one form of amusement Cy enjoys?

5. From what do most of the boarders at Cy's home suffer?

Short Essay Questions

1. There are many instances of foreshadowing in this opening section. Name one and venture a guess as to what it could foreshadow.

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

3. Of what are Cy's earliest memories?

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

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

6. Describe Cy's first encounter with Riley.

7. With what does the young Cy struggle?

8. What are some of the contrasting images seen in the very beginning of this book?

9. What does Riley tell Cy about Michelangelo?

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

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