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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Julius say his experience of his oma’s visit was like, when she came to visit in Nigeria?
(a) Loving.
(b) Contentious.
(c) Heartbreaking.
(d) Frustrating.

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

3. Julius says that the world seems to fall under Obatala’s influence: what is Obatala responsible for?
(a) Bringing harvests.
(b) Creating people.
(c) The flights of birds.
(d) Changing the seasons.

4. What does Julius say he was sent to the Nigerian Military School to get?
(a) Technical training.
(b) Medical training.
(c) A liberal arts education.
(d) Discipline.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Julius say his field of study compares to other fields?

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

3. What does the Wall Street subway station remind Julius of?

4. What is Nadège’s relationship with Julius?

5. What kind of music does Julius say he listens to?

(see the answer key)

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