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

2. Where does Cy go after he is thrown out of the hospital?
(a) To the wharf to jump off.
(b) To check on Maximus.
(c) To drink himself into a stupor at Varga's.
(d) To try to find Grace's sister.

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

4. Who is Lulu?
(a) One of the co-joined twins.
(b) The gentle performing elephant that accidentally crushes a man to death.
(c) A bareback trick rider.
(d) A tightrope walker.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Cy in 1946?

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

4. Why do mothers drop off their babies at the incubation exhibition?

5. What is Grace's attacker's plan?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does tattooing survive change?

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Cy first meet Grace?

9. How does Cy feel about tattooing?

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

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