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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens after Julius breaks his mother’s rule in Chapter 10?
(a) His mother canes him.
(b) His grandmother makes him clean the house.
(c) He is not punished.
(d) His father sends him to his room.

2. Where is Saidu from?
(a) Nigeria.
(b) Liberia.
(c) Morocco.
(d) Angola.

3. What caused Saidu to flee his country?
(a) His home was shelled, and he was threatened with death if he stayed.
(b) His parents saw the war coming when he was a child and left in advance.
(c) The economic collapse made it impossible to find work.
(d) His family had died in the war, and he was pressed to work for the army.

4. What is the second of Farouq’s two projects?
(a) To invent a set of rituals for decolonization.
(b) To start a prayer and reading society.
(c) To bring his family from home to Brussels.
(d) To determine what it takes for different people to live together.

5. What effect does Julius say his curtness has on the waitress who brings him coffee in Grand Sablon?
(a) Anger.
(b) Displeasure.
(c) Puzzlement.
(d) Indignation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Julius’ friend respond to the fact that the “tree of heaven” is an invasive species (179)?

2. Who does Julius feel watched by as he goes to the post office in Chapter 16?

3. How does Nadège’s limp affect Julius, when he joins her on a trip to the immigrant detention facility?

4. What employment did Saidu find when he arrived in Lisbon?

5. What disease does Julius say killed his father?

(see the answer key)

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