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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Julius sees a police officer’ with a handgun in his travels, what does he say he envies about the gun?
(a) Its passivity.
(b) Its lack of ambiguity.
(c) Its unaccountability.
(d) Its murderousness.

2. What does Julius say his friend is passionate about?
(a) Birding.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Local history.
(d) Native American culture.

3. How does Julius characterize the work he does when he is redoing the lab work for the paper he has written?
(a) Shoddy.
(b) Careless.
(c) Meticulous.
(d) Exacting.

4. How does Nadège’s limp affect Julius, when he joins her on a trip to the immigrant detention facility?
(a) It makes him have compassion for Nadège’s experiences.
(b) It makes him think of an illness he had suffered through.
(c) It makes him think of a girl he went to school with.
(d) It makes him think of migrating birds.

5. What do Julius, Farouq and Farouq’s friend Khalil agree on, in terms of the portrayal of blacks in America and Muslims in Europe?
(a) That the people with power control the portrayal.
(b) That the people are responsible for how they are portrayed.
(c) That the portrayal is created in advance by the unconscious of the race.
(d) That one or two men determine how the whole society sees them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the “halo” Julius sees around Dr. Saito’s head comprised of (11)?

2. What is the first of Farouq’s two projects?

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

4. When Julius goes to the Munkasci exhibit at the Center of Photography, he thinks of the photographic concept of the “decisive moment” (152). Which photographer coined this term, and philosophy?

5. What does Dr. Maillotte tell Julius she thinks about Nigerians?

(see the answer key)

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