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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 much does Julius say he carries around his patients’ experiences and stories?
(a) He says that he cannot stop thinking about them.
(b) He says that he will go home and read books that shed light on their conditions.
(c) He says that he does not think about them, and needs to refresh his memory at every visit.
(d) He says that he thinks of them in idle moment.

2. What did Saidu have to invent, in order to get a passport?
(a) A birthdate.
(b) A name.
(c) A home town.
(d) A nationality.

3. Who wrote the cantatas Julius had heard at Lincoln Center, before coming to visit Dr. Saito?
(a) Rachmaninov.
(b) Tchaikovsky.
(c) Bach.
(d) Stravinsky.

4. What is it that Farouq spends a good deal of time and thought trying to protect, intellectually?
(a) The hope of becoming a local, again.
(b) The concept of cultural difference.
(c) The possibility of cultural unification.
(d) The promise of cultural assimilation.

5. What does Julius say he associated classical music with?
(a) Clouds over the city.
(b) His patients.
(c) Traffic in the city streets.
(d) Migrating geese.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Julius characterize Saidu’s narrative?

2. How does Julius characterize Moji and Lise-Anne, respectively?

3. At what age was Julius sent to boarding school?

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

5. What does Dr. Saito die of?

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