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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What issue is remarkably absent from Julius, Farouq and Khalil’s discussion of Middle East politics?
(a) Civil wars.
(b) Tyrants.
(c) Murder of civilians.
(d) Oil.

2. 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 miniature model.
(d) A living entity.

3. Flying back to New York, Julius remembers having seen the city from a similar vantage point: when looking a vast scale model of the city. Where was that scale model exhibited?
(a) The Louvre.
(b) 1964 World’s Fair.
(c) 1939 World’s Fair.
(d) The Smithsonian.

4. What does Julius notice about people’s clothing, as he takes the subway around the city?
(a) That it expresses people’s individualism.
(b) That it reflects numerous cultures.
(c) That it is extremely variable.
(d) That it is mostly dark colors.

5. What does Julius say explains the sense of hermeticism in the paintings of John Brewster?
(a) Brewster’s depression.
(b) The artistic standard of the times.
(c) Brewster’s patron’s demands.
(d) Brewster’s deafness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that Farouq spends a good deal of time and thought trying to protect, intellectually?

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

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

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

5. How does Julius say his mother saw her mother, Julius’ oma?

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