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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do tattoos eventually become?
(a) Famous.
(b) An aggravation.
(c) Just another part of the anatomy.
(d) Sexually appealing.

2. What is an accurate description of the Ladies of Leeds?
(a) Ugly spinsters.
(b) Kind, well-dressed, close-knit.
(c) Hard-faced, bad-mouthed women.
(d) Lovely airheads.

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 had a vision no one else could understand.
(c) He lived 89 years.
(d) He was a good man.

4. Where do Cy and his friends go to watch an effigy of "Kaiser Bill" burn?
(a) Market Square.
(b) Pastuer Blvd.
(c) Pedder Street.
(d) Main Street.

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

6. What has Cy forgotten?
(a) How his grandfather used to buy him ice cream when he came visiting.
(b) Exactly how his mother's face looked.
(c) What song his mother used to sing.
(d) Why his father went to sea.

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

8. About whom does Riley lecture Cy?
(a) Rembrandt.
(b) Leonardo DeVinci.
(c) Vermeer.
(d) Michelangelo.

9. What does Cy think Riley may have done while being attacked?
(a) Got deathly silent.
(b) Thought about having a drink.
(c) Tried the numbing oriental techniques some clients use under the needle.
(d) Screamed.

10. At what does Cy marvel?
(a) The intricate designs Riley tattoos.
(b) The way a woman's breast moves a tattoo.
(c) The way the colors glow on women.
(d) Women's endurance and unpredictability.

11. Who does not feel like maggots in an infected carcass, as they are regarded in the nicer end of town?
(a) Prostitutes.
(b) Jonty and Cy.
(c) Sailors.
(d) Visitors to Riley's tattoo parlour.

12. What happens to Riley at Moffat Revine?
(a) He gets into a fight and kills a man.
(b) He drowns in the creek.
(c) His fingers are shattered.
(d) He strikes his head and is amnesiac.

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

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

15. What does Riley tattoo on Cy's chest?
(a) A ball and chain.
(b) A sailing ship with his dead father's name strung in the rigging.
(c) A skull.
(d) A butterfly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Cy wish his eyes could lie?

2. How does Riley die?

3. Who is Colin Willacy?

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

5. Who slices the rope?

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