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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Cy work?
2. What does Riley admire about Cy?
3. What does Riley tattoo on Cy's chest?
4. Where does Riley take Cy for his first visit to a pub?
5. Why does Cy wish his eyes could lie?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Riley tell Cy about Michelangelo?
2. What indication is there that "times are changing" even in a small town such as Morecambe? Why do you think this is so?
3. How does Riley come to offer Cy an apprenticeship and what is Cy's response?
4. What is the effect of alcohol on Riley?
5. Describe Cy's first interest in a girl and why it is disappointing.
6. How does Cy's mother Reeda respond to his possible apprenticeship with Riley?
7. What does Cy recall as he studies cloud formations and what might this foreshadow?
8. Of what are Cy's earliest memories?
9. What experience causes Cy to no longer be able to sleep under tight blankets?
10. How does Cy's apprenticeship fare and what is an important lesson Cy learns?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
This book is as much about ideas as action/events, if not more so. Choose one of the following ideas and write a persuasive essay using examples from the text and your research or personal experience:
1. Tattooing is as valid an art form as any seen in an art museum. (An idea woven throughout the entire book).
2. Horror, sin, evil and lunacy is truth on a par with the love of God and beatific goodness. (An idea found in Part 1, "The Kaiser and the Queen of Morecambe.")
3. America requires voyeurism in every attraction, because it substitutes emotion for thought. (An idea found in Part 2, "Babylon in Brooklyn.")
Essay Topic 2
In Part 1, "Salvaging Renaissance," Cy thinks that every stage in the passage of life leaves physical mementos and that tattoos can be briefly upsetting, but eventually they become just part of the anatomy. Answer the following questions and write a well-developed, cohesive essay using examples from the text and your research or personal experience:
1. What do the above thoughts mean to you? Do you believe the ideas to hold truth?
2. When Cy thinks that eventually tattoos become just part of the anatomy, do you think he is suggesting that tattoos have little lasting value? If so, how does he value his work?
3. If tattoos record life's moments, why do you think some people go through much pain and expense to have a tattoo removed later?
Essay Topic 3
As the novel opens and then moves along to its conclusion, some characters seem to change more and some seem to stay the same. Choose one of the following and write a well-developed, cohesive essay using examples from the text and your research or personal experience:
1. Compare the character of Cy from who he seems to be during the first half of the book to the person he seems to be in the latter half. How is he alike? How different? Which "person" do you like the best? Why? How is Cy more alike and more different from Riley at the end then at the beginning?
2. Compare the character of Grace from who she seems when she is first introduced to how she seems after her hospital stay. How is she the same? How different? Which "person" do you like the best? Why? Has she changed more or less than Cy in the course of the novel?
3. Compare and contrast Riley, Claudia, and Reeda from who they seem to be when they are first introduced to who they are revealed to be by the end of the story. How much do they change or become who they really are? Or do they change? Who did you like at first and then dislike by the end of the story--and vice versa?
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