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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens as Grace lies in the hospital?
(a) Her horse dies.
(b) Her assailant is sentenced to forty years in prison.
(c) Her assailant is killed by a Coney Island mob.
(d) The assault becomes the talk of Coney Island.

2. Where is Cy when "Babylon in Brooklyn" opens?
(a) In Italy.
(b) In England.
(c) On Coney Island.
(d) In San Francisco.

3. What drawing does Cy search for and find near the end of the book?
(a) A woman on a dancing horse.
(b) A flying horse.
(c) An ancient eye.
(d) His first mermaid.

4. Who owns the Varga Oyster Bar?
(a) Siamese-twins Mary and Valerie.
(b) Henry Beausang.
(c) Den Jones.
(d) Arturas and Claudia Overas.

5. What does the missing guard report when Henry finds him?
(a) That he can remember nothing.
(b) That he drank something and then was out cold.
(c) Being assaulted by two people.
(d) That he went to the bath room and someone locked him in there.

6. What does Cy do when he visits Maximus?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Assures him of Grace's love.
(c) Talks to him about his plans to move back to Europe.
(d) Grooms him.

7. What is in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn?
(a) Cy's apartment.
(b) The licensing agency for tattoo artist.
(c) Monty's place.
(d) Cy's girlfriend's apartment.

8. Who are Grace and Maximus?
(a) A woman and her monkey who live in apartment 104 in Cy's apartment complex.
(b) A man and his wife who own an arcade on Coney Island.
(c) The woman and her horse who live in apartment 104 in Cy's apartment complex.
(d) A woman and her horse who Cy knew in his homeland.

9. What can cost two-thirds of one's tattoo business?
(a) Closing on rainy days.
(b) Having dull needles.
(c) Not having enough pictures.
(d) Dirt in the parlour.

10. What does Cy decide he needs while looking at the design on paper that Grace hands him?
(a) Advice from Arturas.
(b) A strong drink.
(c) Advice from Claudia.
(d) Grace there to explain it.

11. How can Cy draw mermaids?
(a) By comparing them to Venus de Milo.
(b) With his left hand.
(c) With his eyes closed.
(d) In a variety of provocative, sultry, saucy poses.

12. Where does Cy go after he is thrown out of the hospital?
(a) To check on Maximus.
(b) To drink himself into a stupor at Varga's.
(c) To the wharf to jump off.
(d) To try to find Grace's sister.

13. What do the skyscrapers do to Cy?
(a) They make him think he is in heaven.
(b) They seem to pull him up through the sky and out into space.
(c) They scare him.
(d) They give him a kink in his neck as he constantly looks up.

14. Who does Cy watch at Varga's?
(a) Two men downing snapps and arm wrestling.
(b) The twins having a drinking contest.
(c) A man and woman having a loud argument.
(d) Grace playing chess.

15. What does Grace's paper show?
(a) An unblinking, almost hieroglyphic eye.
(b) A horse rearing.
(c) Grace's face on a mermaid.
(d) A horse bowing its two front legs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What hums perpetually, eliciting screams?

2. Of what does Cy ask confirmation from Grace?

3. After hearing Grace talk, what does Cy wonder about her?

4. Why do the police close Sedak's file?

5. Why do tattooists stand apart from the tricksters and freaks?

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