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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is going to care for Maximus?
(a) Arturas.
(b) Cy.
(c) Claudia.
(d) The circus trainer.

3. Why does Cy skip lunch the next day?
(a) He is still suffering the effects of the tainted hot dog of yesterday.
(b) He is on a restricted-calorie diet.
(c) He is not hungry.
(d) So he won't miss Grace should she show up.

4. What happens on Cy's 65th birthday?
(a) He returns to America.
(b) He dies.
(c) Nina Shearer waltzes into his shop.
(d) He decides to quit tattooing since it isn't popular anymore.

5. What do the police think about Henry's story?
(a) They know he is lying but don't care.
(b) It doesn't add up, but Sedak is incomprehensible.
(c) They think he is drunk and is covering his own alcohol use on work time.
(d) It all makes sense.

6. About what do the soldiers clown around with Grace?
(a) Sex.
(b) Her horse.
(c) Needles.
(d) Pictures of mermaids.

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

8. What is the first touch between Cy and Grace like?
(a) Empty of emotion.
(b) Unnerving.
(c) Exciting.
(d) Calming.

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

10. With what is Claudia obsessed?
(a) With Grace's chess-playing style.
(b) With Grace's will to win.
(c) With Maximus's velvet nose.
(d) With Coney Island's macabre and tasteless baby incubation exhibition.

11. Where is Cy in 1946?
(a) Killed in the war.
(b) Back at Pedder Street.
(c) In Southern California with Claudia and Arturas.
(d) Back at Coney Island.

12. How does Claudia describe Grace?
(a) As a person who can reside under the skin.
(b) As a person who knows about many things.
(c) As a well that overflows.
(d) As a mind that consumes all details.

13. What has Claudia been doing for eight years?
(a) Helping her husband create tattoo art.
(b) Raising children.
(c) Working as a scully maid.
(d) Displaying at the Human Picture Gallery while performing feats of strength that enthrall the public.

14. Why does America require voyeurism in every attraction?
(a) Because it puts everything out there for anyone to see.
(b) Because it is a young nation and full of sexual vigor.
(c) Because it is a melting pot of cultures.
(d) Because it substitutes emotion for thought.

15. By what is Grace hypnotized?
(a) The sound of the mechanical embroidery.
(b) The sound of the waves rolling on the beach.
(c) The sound of Cy humming a hymn.
(d) The murmer of Cy as he reassures his client.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Claudia do to Grace's assailant?

2. What hums perpetually, eliciting screams?

3. How does Grace reassure Cy about her body?

4. What do the police find when they go to Cy's tattoo parlor?

5. What is the largest amusement park on earth?

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