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

2. What does fine-line hatching do?
(a) Tricks the eye into seeing three dimensions.
(b) Causes scar tissue.
(c) Creates a wavy image.
(d) Causes much blood loss.

3. What does Riley offer Cy?
(a) An apprenticeship.
(b) A few dollars a week to help him.
(c) A truce.
(d) A message for his mother.

4. What does the town council do to offenders of their policies?
(a) Publishes the names of offenders.
(b) Gives them community service.
(c) Makes them pick litter off the beach.
(d) Fines them.

5. What regularly claims victims among children and tourists?
(a) The strange riptides.
(b) Morecambe's quicksand pools.
(c) The strange illnesses brought in through the port.
(d) The local pickpocket.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cy share with his mother?

2. What does Riley admire about Cy?

3. What are Riley's rules of courtship?

4. Where is Cy's father?

5. Why does Cy have to use distilled water to make his inks?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How do Riley's and Cy's styles differ when starting a job on a client?

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

6. What does Riley tell Cy about Michelangelo?

7. Describe the type of clients that are often drawn to Riley's tattoo parlor.

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

9. How does Cy's afternoon employment foreshadow his future work?

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

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