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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 has Claudia been doing for eight years?
(a) Displaying at the Human Picture Gallery while performing feats of strength that enthrall the public.
(b) Working as a scully maid.
(c) Helping her husband create tattoo art.
(d) Raising children.

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

3. Who has taken care of the horse?
(a) Arturas.
(b) Vivian.
(c) One of the soldiers.
(d) Claudia.

4. How can Cy draw mermaids?
(a) By comparing them to Venus de Milo.
(b) With his eyes closed.
(c) In a variety of provocative, sultry, saucy poses.
(d) With his left hand.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Grace say she will find Cy soon?

3. What seems preordained in Cy's way of thinking?

4. Who are Grace and Maximus?

5. What does Cy do as Grace walks away?

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. How does Claudia become to have so many tattoos and to what does that lead Artura and Claudia?

3. How does Cy remember Grace?

4. How does Cy compare Coney Island to Morecambe?

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

6. Give a physical and psychological description of Claudia.

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

8. How are tattooists looked at in Coney Island?

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

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

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