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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. Why does Cy skip lunch the next day?
(a) So he won't miss Grace should she show up.
(b) He is still suffering the effects of the tainted hot dog of yesterday.
(c) He is on a restricted-calorie diet.
(d) He is not hungry.

2. What does Coney Island "allow"?
(a) Drunks to sleep stretched out across the sidewalk.
(b) Pickpocketing if not much is stolen.
(c) Unsafe rides on the ferris wheel.
(d) Visitors to act out as they would not at home.

3. With what is Claudia obsessed?
(a) With Coney Island's macabre and tasteless baby incubation exhibition.
(b) With Maximus's velvet nose.
(c) With Grace's will to win.
(d) With Grace's chess-playing style.

4. What does Jonesy think is keeping the ladies away from Cy?
(a) His gruff manner.
(b) His rough handling of them.
(c) His lack of nice clothes.
(d) Cy's throwback to the 19th-century look is keeping the ladies away.

5. Who owns the Varga Oyster Bar?
(a) Siamese-twins Mary and Valerie.
(b) Henry Beausang.
(c) Den Jones.
(d) Arturas and Claudia Overas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Grace and Maximus?

2. Who sports orange hair and smudged black eyes and wears an oversized dress?

3. What is the first touch between Cy and Grace like?

4. What does Cy assume all newcomers to New York feel?

5. What does Cy see as a tattoo artist?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Grace is out of the hospital and visits Cy, how is her body described and how does Cy respond?

2. What does Cy think about Coney Island and how do you interpret that?

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

4. Why does tattooing survive change?

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

6. How are tattooists looked at in Coney Island?

7. How does Cy first meet Grace?

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

9. How does Cy feel about tattooing?

10. What is the connection between the game of chess and Grace?

(see the answer keys)

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