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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose music does Julius hear that causes him to stop shopping and sit and listen in the Tower Records?
(a) Vivaldi.
(b) Schumann.
(c) Brahms.
(d) Mahler.

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

3. What caused Saidu to flee his country?
(a) The economic collapse made it impossible to find work.
(b) His home was shelled, and he was threatened with death if he stayed.
(c) His parents saw the war coming when he was a child and left in advance.
(d) His family had died in the war, and he was pressed to work for the army.

4. What is Julius’ (unnamed) friend’s field of expertise?
(a) Literature.
(b) Psychology.
(c) History.
(d) Earth sciences.

5. 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 thinks of them in idle moment.
(c) He says that he will go home and read books that shed light on their conditions.
(d) He says that he does not think about them, and needs to refresh his memory at every visit.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Julius say was the true source of second-class warrant officer Musibau’s anger at him?

3. What effect does Julius’ father’s death have on Julius’ studies?

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

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

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