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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Babylon in Brooklyn.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Riley come to understand while at sea?
(a) That Riley understood the psychological rationale of tattooing.
(b) His father was right about the ocean.
(c) His grandfather had been right to keep his mother from following his father to sea.
(d) Tattooing is a siren song and the music of the spheres, impossible to resist or explain.

2. What does Cy hear through the window of the building he climbs?
(a) Music.
(b) A scream.
(c) Gunshots.
(d) Mechanical bee sounds and voices.

3. What does fine-line hatching do?
(a) Tricks the eye into seeing three dimensions.
(b) Creates a wavy image.
(c) Causes scar tissue.
(d) Causes much blood loss.

4. Why is Riley offering Cy an apprenticeship?
(a) To pass on his artisanship and genius to someone before he dies.
(b) Because he is in love with Cy's mother.
(c) Because he knew Cy's father.
(d) Because he thinks Cy will turn out to be no good otherwise.

5. What is a tattooist's paradise and can easily accommodate more artists?
(a) Boston.
(b) Manhatten.
(c) Coney Island.
(d) San Francisco.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jonesy think is keeping the ladies away from Cy?

2. What is a key to the customer's personality?

3. Where is Cy when "Babylon in Brooklyn" opens?

4. About whom does Riley lecture Cy?

5. What does Cy like around him?

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