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

2. What does life in the Bayview teach Cy?
(a) To appreciate good neighbors.
(b) To have a back door for escape.
(c) To live without forming relationships with neighbors.
(d) To learn to look over the bay to predict the weather.

3. What does the city seem to generate?
(a) Languor.
(b) Crime.
(c) Excitement.
(d) The energy of illumination from within.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How can Cy gain insights into Grace's personality?

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

3. Of what does Cy ask confirmation from Grace?

4. Who is going to care for Maximus?

5. Who takes Cy's tattoo equipment?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Cy first meet Grace?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does the narrator say about the light in Brooklyn?

9. How are tattooists looked at in Coney Island?

10. How does Cy feel about tattooing?

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