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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. Who are Jonty Preston and Morris Gibbs?
(a) Cy's two uncles.
(b) Cy's two step brothers.
(c) Two bullies who regularly beat up Cy.
(d) Cy's two best friends.

2. What does Cy assume all newcomers to New York feel?
(a) Sorrowful.
(b) Excited.
(c) Overwhelmed.
(d) Depressed.

3. What are Riley's rules of courtship?
(a) To slap, grip, fist and dog-mount women.
(b) To court for at least a day before sex.
(c) To treat them tenderly under the needle and harshly under him.
(d) To keep his professional life and sexual life seperate.

4. Why do the town council's junctions bother Reeda?
(a) Because Cy had to do community service one day.
(b) Because she didn't have the money for the fine.
(c) Because she believes the human body is nothing of which to be ashamed.
(d) Because she had to pick up litter one day.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Grace and Maximus?

2. What amazes Cy?

3. What does Cy hear through the window of the building he climbs?

4. Why does Cy wish his eyes could lie?

5. Where do the summer crowds gather?

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