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

2. Where does Riley want to be buried?
(a) In his homeland of Russia.
(b) He wants to be cremated.
(c) At sea.
(d) At the hillside cemetary.

3. What is different about Cy's mom from Cy?
(a) She speaks ten languages and Cy only one.
(b) Reeda Parks can see beyond the horror of the sick people in ways her son cannot.
(c) She had a loving, normal home, but Cy is raised in a boarding house of sick people.
(d) She is a Russian, whereas Cy is born in Italy.

4. When does Cy meet Arturas and Claudia Overas?
(a) When he rents his apartment.
(b) When he hangs out his sign on his shop.
(c) When he almost gets hit by a taxi.
(d) When buying his first batch of ink.

5. What does life in the Bayview teach Cy?
(a) To have a back door for escape.
(b) To learn to look over the bay to predict the weather.
(c) To appreciate good neighbors.
(d) To live without forming relationships with neighbors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Cy forgotten?

2. What does Cy observe as he is searching for shells?

3. Who are Jonty Preston and Morris Gibbs?

4. At what does Cy marvel?

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

(see the answer key)

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