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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Riley die?
(a) Suicide by drinking bleach.
(b) Hangs himself.
(c) Slips and cracks his head and drowns in the bay.
(d) Is murdered by the man who smashes his fingers.

2. How does Jonty describe Mr. Riley?
(a) A lunatic.
(b) An undesirable papist who buys pigs' heads for ungodly purposes.
(c) A underworld spy.
(d) A cool tattoo artist.

3. What is the most important thing to remember about the man in question #61?
(a) He had a hard time getting blue paint to use on special things.
(b) He lived 89 years.
(c) He was a good man.
(d) He had a vision no one else could understand.

4. How does Cy respond to what he sees in the basin?
(a) Fear.
(b) Disgust.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Excitement.

5. How does Cy's routine begin?
(a) By singing a song to himself.
(b) By tapping three times on the table for luck.
(c) With the question, "Ready?"
(d) By outlining in pencil the work area.

6. What does Cy not really understand?
(a) That he is going to a boarding school.
(b) That his mother does tattoos.
(c) That electricity is dangerous.
(d) That his mother and Muriel perform abortions.

7. What does Cy realize about life?
(a) That he is old enough to understand the vagaries of life.
(b) That it is always wonderful.
(c) That it can be messy and cruel.
(d) That it is never wonderful.

8. How do women's tattoos differ from men's?
(a) They almost always have purple and pink in them.
(b) They are usually flowers.
(c) They are more colorful.
(d) They are smaller and more discreet than men's and entirely personal.

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

10. What can Riley not bear to inscribe on Cy?
(a) The name of Cy's lover.
(b) Any religious symbols.
(c) Reeda's name.
(d) The word death.

11. What is Muriel's occupation?
(a) A nurse.
(b) A circus performer.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A respected electrotherapist.

12. What do the Ladies of Leeds do?
(a) They are nuns and they pray for the ill at Cy's home.
(b) Circus performers.
(c) Prostitutes.
(d) Join Reeda in collecting meager alms and votes.

13. Who is Colin Willacy?
(a) Cy's mother's lawyer.
(b) The headmaster at Cy's school.
(c) Cy's grandfather.
(d) Cy's uncle.

14. What is a distinct favorite of Cy and his friends?
(a) The cotton candy.
(b) A line of Bathing Beauties parades barer than ever and Gaynor Shearer's erect nipples.
(c) The blaring music.
(d) The ice cream machine.

15. Why does Cy wish his eyes could lie?
(a) So the school bully would leave him alone.
(b) So he could look his mama in the face.
(c) So his troubles would be over.
(d) So the schoolmaster wouldn't hit him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one form of amusement Cy enjoys?

2. Where do Cy and his friends go to watch an effigy of "Kaiser Bill" burn?

3. Where does Riley take Cy for his first visit to a pub?

4. What's the only way Riley would consider himself a father figure to Cy?

5. What does Cy's mother say about the sun's light?

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