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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Dr. Maillotte’s connection with Eduoard Empain, who built Heliopolis in Egypt?
(a) She is descended from him.
(b) Just that she has visited the city.
(c) She knows his grandson.
(d) She is married to his grandson.

2. In Chapter 15, where does Dr. Saito tell Julius he is ready to go?
(a) The stars.
(b) The mountains.
(c) The forest.
(d) The sea.

3. What effect does Julius say his curtness has on the waitress who brings him coffee in Grand Sablon?
(a) Anger.
(b) Indignation.
(c) Puzzlement.
(d) Displeasure.

4. How does Julius describe sex with this tourist whose name he does not know?
(a) Something he needed to do.
(b) Something she tolerated.
(c) Something he was hungry for.
(d) Something she gave him.

5. Where is there an explosion, in the dream Julius has in the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) A pet market in Basra.
(b) In Lincoln Center.
(c) Brussels.
(d) Wall Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julius say he is awed by, after forgetting his ATM card PIN?

2. Why would Julius have thought that the Africans in Brussels all came from this one place in Chapter 11?

3. What topic does Dr. Saito ask Julius to read the complete articles about, instead of stopping after two paragraphs?

4. What is it about Farouq that surprises Julius?

5. What is it that Farouq spends a good deal of time and thought trying to protect, intellectually?

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