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

2. How has Riley eclipsed Reeda?
(a) In that Cy can still see Riley's face in his mind.
(b) As Cy's chief means of reckoning.
(c) He has not eclipsed Reeda.
(d) In the little aphorisms Cy remembers of Riley's.

3. Who owns the Varga Oyster Bar?
(a) Henry Beausang.
(b) Den Jones.
(c) Siamese-twins Mary and Valerie.
(d) Arturas and Claudia Overas.

4. What is the largest amusement park on earth?
(a) Park Place.
(b) Coney Island.
(c) The Brooklyn Boardwalk.
(d) Central Park.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grace's paper show?

2. Why do tattooists stand apart from the tricksters and freaks?

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

4. What happens on Cy's 65th birthday?

5. What is a tattooist's paradise and can easily accommodate more artists?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cy first meet Grace?

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

3. Describe the first meeting between Arturas and Claudia Overas and Cy.

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

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

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

7. What is the story Henry gives about what happens at the asylum and do the police believe him?

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

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

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

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