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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. Where is Cy in 1946?
(a) Killed in the war.
(b) Back at Coney Island.
(c) Back at Pedder Street.
(d) In Southern California with Claudia and Arturas.

2. How can Cy gain insights into Grace's personality?
(a) He can watch Grace perform.
(b) He can ask Maximus.
(c) He can read some psychology books in the library.
(d) He can quiz chess devotees unobtrusively about Grace's strategy.

3. Where does Cy go despite his vows never to return after Lulu's death?
(a) To Ellis Island.
(b) To Central Park.
(c) To uptown Manhatten.
(d) To watch Grace at the circus.

4. Why does Coney Island offer anything repulsive, breathtaking, or monstrously new that people are willing to pay to see?
(a) Because it is they only way for misfits to earn a living.
(b) Because it is materialistic.
(c) Because it is Coney Island.
(d) Because it is consumer driven.

5. After hearing Grace talk, what does Cy wonder about her?
(a) Why she would carry on in such a manner.
(b) If she is making it all up.
(c) If she could be an orphan of the Great War.
(d) If she is insane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had left the back door unlocked?

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

3. What does Claudia do to Grace's assailant?

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

5. What do the police think about Henry's story?

Short Essay Questions

1. What secret of Claudia's does Grace hold?

2. How does Cy compare Coney Island to Morecambe?

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

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

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

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

7. How does Cy feel about tattooing?

8. Why does tattooing survive change?

9. How had Grace come to be known by some many so that perhaps Sedak knows of her and judges her?

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

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