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

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

3. Who sports orange hair and smudged black eyes and wears an oversized dress?
(a) Mia.
(b) Claudia.
(c) Jessie.
(d) Annamarie.

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

5. What does Grace request of Cy?
(a) That he stop being sad.
(b) That he met her at the fountain and is sober.
(c) That he go away with her.
(d) That he not try to find her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By what is Grace hypnotized?

3. Why does the management of the baby incubation exhibition allow Grace to come in for free?

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

5. Why is Claudia obsessed with the baby incubation exhibition?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Do you think Sedak deserves what they do to him?

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

5. How does Cy first meet Grace?

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

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

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

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

10. How does Cy remember Grace?

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