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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Julius say the boys who beat him up and robbed him were intent on doing?
(a) Teaching him a lesson.
(b) Humiliating him.
(c) Killing him.
(d) Making him afraid.

2. What was the subject of the cantatas Julius had heard at Lincoln Center, before coming to visit Dr. Saito?
(a) Tulips.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Cinnamon.
(d) Tea.

3. In Chapter 15, where does Dr. Saito tell Julius he is ready to go?
(a) The forest.
(b) The mountains.
(c) The stars.
(d) The sea.

4. What does Julius say he felt comforted by when he went to the tailor’s shop to get clothes for his father’s funeral?
(a) The tailor’s assistant’s kind words.
(b) The tailor’s words of advice.
(c) The tailor’s patient listening.
(d) The tailor’s hands on him.

5. What is Julius’ response to Moji telling him that he forced himself on her when they were young?
(a) He changes the topic and talks about the weather.
(b) He stammers out an apology.
(c) He breaks down and apologizes in tears.
(d) He says nothing and goes inside.

6. How old does Julius say his father was when he died?
(a) 58.
(b) 49.
(c) 64.
(d) 72.

7. What kind of music does the band play, that marches past the store where Julius stops in Chinatown in Chapter 16?
(a) A fugue.
(b) A dirge.
(c) A jazz classic.
(d) A march.

8. What consolation does Julius try to avoid offering himself, after being beaten up and robbed?
(a) “They don’t know what they’re doing.”
(b) “It could be worse.”
(c) “This too shall pass.”
(d) “You’re better than they are.”

9. What is Julius’ reaction to Dr. Saito telling him that he is ready to die in Chapter 15?
(a) He sits mute and still.
(b) He rushes out.
(c) He calls the nurse.
(d) He holds his hand.

10. Who wrote the cantatas Julius had heard at Lincoln Center, before coming to visit Dr. Saito?
(a) Rachmaninov.
(b) Stravinsky.
(c) Bach.
(d) Tchaikovsky.

11. When Julius goes to the Munkasci exhibit at the Center of Photography, he thinks of the photographic concept of the “decisive moment” (152). Which photographer coined this term, and philosophy?
(a) Cartier-Bresson.
(b) Stieglitz.
(c) Munkasci.
(d) Capa.

12. What is Moji reading during her picnic in Central Park with Julius and his friend and his friend’s girlfriend Lise-Anne?
(a) Anna Karenina.
(b) Eugene Onegin.
(c) Hunter’s Sketches.
(d) Notes From Underground.

13. How old does Julius say he was when his driver hit and killed a girl?
(a) Eight or nine.
(b) Six or seven.
(c) Four or five.
(d) Ten or eleven.

14. How old was Julius when Moji said he forced himself on her?
(a) 20.
(b) 14.
(c) 16.
(d) 18.

15. When Julius sees a bust of poet Paul Claudel, what aspect of Claudel’s legacy does Julius think time will redeem?
(a) Claudel’s writings about Africans.
(b) Claudel’s collaboration with the Nazis.
(c) Claudel’s financial woes.
(d) Claudel’s treatment of his parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the white man teaching the Asian woman in the diner where Julius sees them in Chapter 18?

2. How does Julius regard the Africans he sees in Chapter 11, once he finds out where they really come from?

3. How does Julius prepare himself for winter?

4. What part of academia does Julius say he has never had a stomach for?

5. What do Julius’ thoughts about the Africans he had seen in Le Panais make him think about the cleaning woman in the church?

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