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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 does Julius say his study at the hospital shows a correlation between?
(a) Diet and heart disease.
(b) Strokes and depression.
(c) Exercise and depression.
(d) Depression and suicide.

2. How does Julius characterize Saidu’s narrative?
(a) Like a unblocked aquifer.
(b) Like a trickle of information.
(c) Like a cautious testimony.
(d) Like an avalanche of information.

3. What disease does Julius say killed his father?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Emphysema.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Tuberculosis.

4. What is Dr. Maillotte reading on the flight with Julius?
(a) Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking.
(b) Sontag’s essays.
(c) Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition.
(d) Sartre’s The Nausea.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julius say his experience of his oma’s visit was like, when she came to visit in Nigeria?

2. What happens after Julius breaks his mother’s rule in Chapter 10?

3. What does Mayken, Julius’ short-term landlord for his stay in Brussels, tell him the ethnic composition of Brussels was supposed to be?

4. What is the first thing Saidu asks Julius when he meets him at the immigrant detention facility?

5. What is Julius’ relationship to Moji Kasali?

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