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

2. What happens as Grace lies in the hospital?
(a) Her assailant is killed by a Coney Island mob.
(b) Her horse dies.
(c) Her assailant is sentenced to forty years in prison.
(d) The assault becomes the talk of Coney Island.

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

4. What is Grace doing as Cy is finishing with the soldier?
(a) Browsing through a book of flash.
(b) Suggesting appropriate tattoos for each soldier.
(c) Combing her hair.
(d) Flirting with the other soldiers.

5. What drawing does Cy search for and find near the end of the book?
(a) An ancient eye.
(b) His first mermaid.
(c) A flying horse.
(d) A woman on a dancing horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Cy walks Grace home when he first meets her, what does he think about at the door?

2. What is a tattooist's paradise and can easily accommodate more artists?

3. How can Cy draw mermaids?

4. What does Cy see as a tattoo artist?

5. What hums perpetually, eliciting screams?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the first meeting between Arturas and Claudia Overas and Cy.

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

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

6. What does Cy think he sees in a neighboring apartment that makes him question his sanity?

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

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

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

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

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