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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Bloodlights.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What confuses Cy?
(a) Watching his mother care for sobbing women who visit in the middle of the night.
(b) Where is father is.
(c) Why his mother cries for strangers.
(d) Why he is not attending school.

2. What does Cy not know?
(a) That his mother is pregnant.
(b) That his father is really alive.
(c) That his mother plans to get an abortion.
(d) That abortionists can be jailed.

3. Who is Muriel?
(a) Reeda's older sister.
(b) Reeda's secret partner.
(c) Morris's mother.
(d) Reeda's lover.

4. Upon what does the town council frown?
(a) On boys younger than 10 on the beach without a parent.
(b) On the sick people Cy's mother nurses.
(c) On mixed bathing and skimpy outfits.
(d) On school being closed on Fridays.

5. What does the town council do to offenders of their policies?
(a) Gives them community service.
(b) Publishes the names of offenders.
(c) Fines them.
(d) Makes them pick litter off the beach.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Cy wish his eyes could lie?

2. What is an accurate description of the Ladies of Leeds?

3. What is different about Cy's mom from Cy?

4. What does Cy not really understand?

5. Where do the summer crowds gather?

(see the answer key)

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