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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 bounces off Claudia like hail from an ox's rump?
(a) Sexual innuendos.
(b) Insults about her husband's ugly features.
(c) Cruelty about her non-female form.
(d) Praise for her tattoos.

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

3. Why do mothers drop off their babies at the incubation exhibition?
(a) They cannot care for them at home.
(b) They hope the baby will die faster there.
(c) They are hopeful the babies will grow into healthy, hungry, crying beings.
(d) They have to by law.

4. What does Cy do as Grace walks away?
(a) He gets his gun out of the drawer.
(b) He wrecks his shop.
(c) He prepares to tattoo an eye on his arm.
(d) He lets out a wolf-like howl and slumps to the ground.

5. Why do the police close Sedak's file?
(a) No one really cares about what happened.
(b) They think the assailants are dead.
(c) They think Sedak insanely hurt himself.
(d) They find the culprits.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the largest amusement park on earth?

2. What does Henry find when he climbs the floor to where Sedak is held?

3. Who had left the back door unlocked?

4. What does Cy think he sees in an apartment below him?

5. Where is Cy in 1946?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Cy first meet Grace?

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

4. What does Cy think about Coney Island and how do you interpret that?

5. What gives a possible hint to a terrible secret in Grace's past?

6. How does Cy feel about tattooing?

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

8. How does Cy compare Coney Island to Morecambe?

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

10. How are tattooists looked at in Coney Island?

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