View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Riley come to understand while at sea?
(a) His grandfather had been right to keep his mother from following his father to sea.
(b) Tattooing is a siren song and the music of the spheres, impossible to resist or explain.
(c) That Riley understood the psychological rationale of tattooing.
(d) His father was right about the ocean.

2. Who does Cy recognize?
(a) A man down the street as the thief who stole his bike.
(b) A woman who used to live at the boarding house.
(c) A policeman who accepts bribes from his mother.
(d) Reeba's helper.

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

4. What does Cy discover on Riley's body?
(a) A tribute tattooed to Reeda.
(b) Fitting verses tattooed on Riley's right sole.
(c) A tattoo for every year of Riley's life.
(d) No tattoos.

5. What's the only way Riley would consider himself a father figure to Cy?
(a) If he can bring his fine-legged mother into the equation.
(b) If Cy can beat him in arm wrestling.
(c) If Cy's mother wants Riley to serve that purpose.
(d) If Cy can prove Riley is his real father.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is an accurate description of the Ladies of Leeds?

3. What confuses Cy?

4. Who does not feel like maggots in an infected carcass, as they are regarded in the nicer end of town?

5. What does Cy think Riley may have done while being attacked?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Riley's death and Cy's response.

2. Describe Cy's first interest in a girl and why it is disappointing.

3. There are many instances of foreshadowing in this opening section. Name one and venture a guess as to what it could foreshadow.

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

5. How does Riley come to offer Cy an apprenticeship and what is Cy's response?

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

7. How does Cy's mother Reeda respond to his possible apprenticeship with Riley?

8. Why do many women come to Riley's tattoo parlor?

9. With what does the young Cy struggle?

10. What major theme is touched upon in this chapter and how is it expressed here?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,292 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample