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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Julius characterize the work he does when he is redoing the lab work for the paper he has written?

3. What is V.’s book about?

4. How does Julius characterize his mother’s feelings about Nigeria?

5. What does Julius notice about people’s clothing, as he takes the subway around the city?

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