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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What kind of music does Julius say he listens to?
(a) Jazz.
(b) Classical.
(c) Classic rock.
(d) Rock.

4. What is Dr. Maillotte’s field of medicine?
(a) Epidemiology.
(b) Gerontology.
(c) Gastrointestinal surgery.
(d) Oncology.

5. What happens to decrease the tension over the recent incident in Brussels when Julius visits?
(a) Reporters find out that the attackers are not Muslim.
(b) The police refuse to file charges.
(c) The victim denies the events took place.
(d) The perpetrators turn themselves in.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julius think about doing in the boat basin behind the World Financial Center?

2. What recent event has created controversy in Brussels, when Julius arrives there?

3. Whose music does Julius hear that causes him to stop shopping and sit and listen in the Tower Records?

4. Julius says that the world seems to fall under Obatala’s influence: what is Obatala responsible for?

5. Where is Saidu from?

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