Open City Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Teju Cole
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 171 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Open City Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Teju Cole
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Julius treating V. for?
(a) Multiple personality disorder.
(b) Depression.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Schizophrenia.

2. What is Dr. Maillotte’s connection with Eduoard Empain, who built Heliopolis in Egypt?
(a) She is married to his grandson.
(b) She is descended from him.
(c) She knows his grandson.
(d) Just that she has visited the city.

3. What is Julius’ field of practice?
(a) Psychiatry.
(b) Oncology.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Geriatrics.

4. What does Julius say his experience of his oma’s visit was like, when she came to visit in Nigeria?
(a) Loving.
(b) Contentious.
(c) Frustrating.
(d) Heartbreaking.

5. How does Julius say he and his mother responded to Julius’ father’s death?
(a) With wild grieving.
(b) With bland indifference.
(c) With fierce bickering.
(d) With stoic silence.

6. At what age was Julius sent to boarding school?
(a) 7.
(b) 14.
(c) 9.
(d) 10.

7. How does Julius characterize the city when he comes out of the Wall Street subway stop?
(a) A rough draft.
(b) A palimpsest.
(c) A living entity.
(d) A miniature model.

8. How does Julius characterize his mother’s feelings about Nigeria?
(a) She hated it because she felt trapped there.
(b) She loved it because she had come to belong there.
(c) She hated it because she did not feel at home there.
(d) She loved it but could never belong there.

9. What is the first thing Saidu asks Julius when he meets him at the immigrant detention facility?
(a) Whether he is Christian.
(b) Whether he is African.
(c) Whether he is thirsty.
(d) Whether he is tired.

10. How does Julius say he sees the other people who are around when he is in the atrium above the Wall Street subway station?
(a) As dangerous animals.
(b) As kindly domesticated animals.
(c) As robots.
(d) As life-size mannequins.

11. On his way home from the cinema, who does Julius have a presentiment about seeing again?
(a) His mother.
(b) His friend.
(c) His father.
(d) His oma.

12. What did Julius get a reputation for, after the affair of Musibau’s stolen newspaper, at the military school?
(a) Mendacity.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Shiftiness.
(d) Fearlessness.

13. What employment did Saidu find when he arrived in Lisbon?
(a) Barber.
(b) Laborer.
(c) Policeman.
(d) Taxi driver.

14. When does Julius say he was estranged from his mother?
(a) At 28.
(b) At 17.
(c) At 24.
(d) At 21.

15. How much does Julius say he carries around his patients’ experiences and stories?
(a) He says that he cannot stop thinking about them.
(b) He says that he thinks of them in idle moment.
(c) He says that he will go home and read books that shed light on their conditions.
(d) He says that he does not think about them, and needs to refresh his memory at every visit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julius say fatigues him about boarding the plane?

2. What do Julius, Farouq and Farouq’s friend Khalil agree on, in terms of the portrayal of blacks in America and Muslims in Europe?

3. What kind of music does Julius say he listens to?

4. Where had Dr. Maillotte done her medical training?

5. What disease does Julius say killed his father?

(see the answer keys)

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