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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 is Arturas' moniker?
(a) Bozo.
(b) G-man.
(c) Snoopy.
(d) Black Baron.

2. Why does Cy advise the soldiers to go wash down their arms?
(a) So he doesn't have to go draw more water from next door.
(b) Cy advises them not to wash their arms.
(c) So no muck will get into their bloodstreams.
(d) So the blood will not ruin their uniforms.

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

4. With what is Coney Island drunk?
(a) With vulgarity, surrealism and pure stimulation.
(b) With youth.
(c) With the idea of freedom to be.
(d) With life.

5. What is a tattooist's paradise and can easily accommodate more artists?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Boston.
(c) Coney Island.
(d) Manhatten.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Malcolm Sedak?

3. What does Coney Island "allow"?

4. What does Cy decide he needs while looking at the design on paper that Grace hands him?

5. Why does Grace say she will find Cy soon?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cy compare Coney Island to Morecambe?

2. How is Grace described at the beginning of "The Lady of Many Eyes"?

3. What is the story Henry gives about what happens at the asylum and do the police believe him?

4. How does Cy remember Grace?

5. What does Grace want from Cy and why do you think she wants it?

6. Do you think Sedak deserves what they do to him?

7. Why do you think Cy returns to Pedder Street in Morecambe?

8. What does the narrator say about the light in Brooklyn?

9. When Cy is somewhat inebriated in Vargas, he makes what connection between Grace and his mother and how does he react to that connection?

10. Why does tattooing survive change?

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