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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why would Julius have thought that the Africans in Brussels all came from this one place in Chapter 11?
(a) Because Belgium had adopted an open borders policy for refugees.
(b) Because of Belgium’s colonial relationship with that country.
(c) Because of Belgium’s selective immigration policies.
(d) Because Belgium had agreed to resettle refugees from the civil war there.

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

3. On one hand, Julius says that his memory of Nigeria is mostly a blank forgetting—how does he describe the things that do stick with him from that time?
(a) Irruptive.
(b) Elusive.
(c) Immanent.
(d) Iridescent.

4. What does Dr. Maillotte tell Julius she thinks about Nigerians?
(a) That they are genial.
(b) That they are arrogant.
(c) That they are lazy.
(d) That they are shifty.

5. What is the title Teju Cole gives to Part 2 of Open City, beginning with Chapter 12?
(a) I have searched myself.
(b) Mother, where are you?
(c) Alone in the fog.
(d) The world still exists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Saidu have to invent, in order to get a passport?

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

3. What happens to decrease the tension over the recent incident in Brussels when Julius visits?

4. Where is Saidu from?

5. 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?

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