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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, The Lady of Many Eyes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Coney Island "allow"?
(a) Unsafe rides on the ferris wheel.
(b) Drunks to sleep stretched out across the sidewalk.
(c) Pickpocketing if not much is stolen.
(d) Visitors to act out as they would not at home.

2. 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.

3. What does a voice advise a soldier to do while he is getting a tattoo?
(a) To think about things that make him fall asleep so he will no longer be in his body.
(b) To pant.
(c) To focus on making his breathing slow and easy.
(d) To smoke some hash.

4. What does Grace's paper show?
(a) Grace's face on a mermaid.
(b) An unblinking, almost hieroglyphic eye.
(c) A horse bowing its two front legs.
(d) A horse rearing.

5. Why is Claudia obsessed with the baby incubation exhibition?
(a) She thinks it's where angels dwell.
(b) She likes to sing to the babies.
(c) She has never been pregnant.
(d) She has had six miscarriages.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what does Cy marvel?

2. Why does Cy's mother board these "guests"?

3. Why does Cy skip lunch the next day?

4. With what does Cy decide he needs help?

5. Who is Colin Willacy?

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