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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Julius watches the snowflakes come down after meeting with his accountant in Chapter 13, he feels a furious sense of what?
(a) Harmony.
(b) Homesickness.
(c) Imbalance.
(d) Well-being.

2. What is Julius treating V. for?
(a) Depression.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Multiple personality disorder.

3. What is V.’s book about?
(a) The expansion of trade routes in colonial New York.
(b) The invention of machinery.
(c) The murder of Native Americans in New York.
(d) The financing of slave ships.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Julius get a reputation for, after the affair of Musibau’s stolen newspaper, at the military school?

2. What is it about Farouq that surprises Julius?

3. What is the first of Farouq’s two projects?

4. What does the local bishop say in response to the event that has created controversy in Brussels when Julius arrives there?

5. What does Julius say explains the sense of hermeticism in the paintings of John Brewster?

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