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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Julius characterize his personality during the picnic in Central Park?
(a) Disingenuous and hard-hearted.
(b) Proud and arrogant.
(c) Shifty and duplicitous.
(d) Fundamentally indecisive.

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

3. What caused Saidu to flee his country?
(a) His parents saw the war coming when he was a child and left in advance.
(b) His family had died in the war, and he was pressed to work for the army.
(c) The economic collapse made it impossible to find work.
(d) His home was shelled, and he was threatened with death if he stayed.

4. 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 robots.
(c) As kindly domesticated animals.
(d) As life-size mannequins.

5. Where does Julius find out most Africans in Brussels actually come from?
(a) Rwanda.
(b) Tunisia.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Swaziland.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Julius sees a police officer’ with a handgun in his travels, what does he say he envies about the gun?

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

3. What does Dr. Maillotte say the actual ethnic composition of Brussels is?

4. What effect does Julius say his curtness has on the waitress who brings him coffee in Grand Sablon?

5. Who does Julius ask for help after being beaten and robbed?

(see the answer key)

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