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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Cy observe as he is searching for shells?
(a) His neighbor hitting his wife.
(b) A plane plunge into the sea.
(c) A boat in the harbor go up in flames.
(d) Jonty and the girl Cy loves kissing.

3. From what does Cy avert his eyes?
(a) From the ice cream peddler down the street.
(b) From the neighbor's wife who is always naked.
(c) From his father's ash urn.
(d) From sick people coughing into basins.

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

5. Of what are Cy's earliest memories?
(a) Laughing summer crowds.
(b) His mother leaning over his bed and singing him a lullaby.
(c) A ship from India coming into port one day and the excitement of it.
(d) A pig being slaughtered next door.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Riley admire about Cy?

2. Who is Colin Willacy?

3. Why do the town council's junctions bother Reeda?

4. Where does Cy work?

5. Who does Cy recognize?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cy slip into starting to tattoo instead of just watching Riley and what is Riley's response?

2. What experience causes Cy to no longer be able to sleep under tight blankets?

3. What are some of the contrasting images seen in the very beginning of this book?

4. How does sex figure into Riley's tattoo business?

5. What indication is there that "times are changing" even in a small town such as Morecambe? Why do you think this is so?

6. What does Riley tell Cy about Michelangelo?

7. What does Jonty say about Riley; is it likely to be true?

8. What do you think is a boggart and how is it used?

9. What convinces Cy that the first part of his life has ended?

10. What upsets the town council and what is Reeda's response?

(see the answer keys)

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