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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 is the largest amusement park on earth?
(a) Coney Island.
(b) Central Park.
(c) Park Place.
(d) The Brooklyn Boardwalk.

2. When Cy walks Grace home when he first meets her, what does he think about at the door?
(a) Cy thinks about how much Grace looks like his mother.
(b) Cy wonders if he should kiss her and whether he is drunk enough to try.
(c) Cy wonders why he is always so shy around women outside of his tattoo parlour.
(d) Cy thinks about Riley's way of treating women.

3. What does Grace's paper show?
(a) A horse rearing.
(b) A horse bowing its two front legs.
(c) Grace's face on a mermaid.
(d) An unblinking, almost hieroglyphic eye.

4. What is the first touch between Cy and Grace like?
(a) Empty of emotion.
(b) Exciting.
(c) Unnerving.
(d) Calming.

5. Where does Cy go after he is thrown out of the hospital?
(a) To check on Maximus.
(b) To drink himself into a stupor at Varga's.
(c) To try to find Grace's sister.
(d) To the wharf to jump off.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Claudia been doing for eight years?

2. Who is Arturas?

3. Who is going to care for Maximus?

4. What does Cy decide he needs while looking at the design on paper that Grace hands him?

5. What does Coney Island "allow"?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Cy is somewhat inebriated in Vargas, he makes what connection between Grace and his mother and how does he react to that connection?

2. Why do you think Cy returns to Pedder Street in Morecambe?

3. How had Grace come to be known by some many so that perhaps Sedak knows of her and judges her?

4. How does Cy feel about tattooing?

5. Describe the first few days that Cy spends at the hospital.

6. Why does Cy stay open on rainy days and describe one such day.

7. How does Cy compare Coney Island to Morecambe?

8. What gives a possible hint to a terrible secret in Grace's past?

9. Give a physical and psychological description of Claudia.

10. How are tattooists looked at in Coney Island?

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