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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mayken, Julius’ short-term landlord for his stay in Brussels, tell him the ethnic composition of Brussels was supposed to be?
(a) Equal parts Flemish, Walloon, French and immigrant.
(b) All Walloon.
(c) All Flemish.
(d) Half Walloon, half Flemish.

2. What is the first thing Saidu asks Julius when he meets him at the immigrant detention facility?
(a) Whether he is thirsty.
(b) Whether he is Christian.
(c) Whether he is tired.
(d) Whether he is African.

3. What does the poet want to talk about, instead of reading poetry, when Julius goes to the 92nd Street Y?
(a) Love.
(b) Colonialism.
(c) Persecution.
(d) History.

4. What does Julius ransack his parents house looking for, while his mother is gone, in the childhood he remembers?
(a) Coca-Cola.
(b) Liquor.
(c) Money.
(d) Pornography.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Dr. Maillotte done her medical training?

2. What is Dr. Maillotte’s field of medicine?

3. How old is the Czechoslovakian tourist Julius has a one-night encounter with?

4. When does Julius say he was estranged from his mother?

5. What happens to decrease the tension over the recent incident in Brussels when Julius visits?

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