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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 does Cy like around him?
(a) Pretty girls.
(b) His favorite pictures.
(c) Art supplies.
(d) Lots of food.

2. What do Cy, Jonty and Morris seek?
(a) New ways to escape the town council's rules.
(b) After school employment.
(c) A way to sell their inventions.
(d) A way to get to the far coast.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What has Cy forgotten?

3. When Cy arrives home eyes glazed and gait obstructed, what does Reeda assume?

4. Why do the town council's junctions bother Reeda?

5. What does Reeda admit to Cy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cy's mother Reeda respond to his possible apprenticeship with Riley?

2. With what does the young Cy struggle?

3. What indication is there that "times are changing" even in a small town such as Morecambe? Why do you think this is so?

4. Of what are Cy's earliest memories?

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

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

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

8. How does Cy's afternoon employment foreshadow his future work?

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

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

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