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

2. What does Cy assume all newcomers to New York feel?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Excited.
(c) Sorrowful.
(d) Overwhelmed.

3. How does Claudia describe Grace?
(a) As a person who can reside under the skin.
(b) As a well that overflows.
(c) As a mind that consumes all details.
(d) As a person who knows about many things.

4. With what is Coney Island drunk?
(a) With life.
(b) With the idea of freedom to be.
(c) With vulgarity, surrealism and pure stimulation.
(d) With youth.

5. What does a voice advise a soldier to do while he is getting a tattoo?
(a) To pant.
(b) To smoke some hash.
(c) To focus on making his breathing slow and easy.
(d) To think about things that make him fall asleep so he will no longer be in his body.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jonesy think is keeping the ladies away from Cy?

2. Why do the police close Sedak's file?

3. What does Cy do when Grace stands naked before him for the first time since the assault?

4. What happens as Grace lies in the hospital?

5. What do the police find when they go to Cy's tattoo parlor?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cy feel about tattooing?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the last image in the book and what you think is its meaning.

9. Why does tattooing survive change?

10. Give a physical and psychological description of Claudia.

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