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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 the city seem to generate?
(a) Excitement.
(b) Crime.
(c) The energy of illumination from within.
(d) Languor.

2. Of what is Coney Island proof?
(a) That freedom to be eccentric exists.
(b) That the Victorian era cannot conjure out the black Gothic soul or suppress its darker energy.
(c) That human depravity is alive and well.
(d) That the stranger one is the more money one can make.

3. Who is Arturas?
(a) A stevedore.
(b) A cart man.
(c) An acrobat.
(d) The best tattoo artist in New York.

4. What does Cy offer Nina?
(a) An apprenticeship.
(b) A free tattoo.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A scholarship.

5. What does Cy do when Grace stands naked before him for the first time since the assault?
(a) Cy slams his hands down and swears to kill the assailant.
(b) Cy holds her in his arms for an hour.
(c) Cy cannot control his horror and weeps uncontrollably.
(d) Cy turns away unable to look at her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has Cy never married?

2. What does Cy think he sees in an apartment below him?

3. What drawing does Cy search for and find near the end of the book?

4. Who is in Cy's tattoo parlor when Grace first visits?

5. How has Riley eclipsed Reeda?

Short Essay Questions

1. What secret of Claudia's does Grace hold?

2. Why does Cy not knock on apartment number 104, though it draws him?

3. Give a physical and psychological description of Claudia.

4. How does Grace send Eva's ghost packing?

5. What does the narrator say about the light in Brooklyn?

6. How is Grace described at the beginning of "The Lady of Many Eyes"?

7. What is the story Henry gives about what happens at the asylum and do the police believe him?

8. What are Sedak's motives in attacking Grace?

9. What are the sexual images Cy has of mermaids?

10. What does Grace want from Cy and why do you think she wants it?

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