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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 does Julius reflect on, after seeing the film The Last King of Scotland?
(a) His desire to be spared the knowledge of horrors.
(b) His desire to gain power over people who perform horrific acts.
(c) His desire to know the world on any terms necessary.
(d) His desire to make sacrifices to right historical wrongs.

2. What does Julius say he is awed by, after forgetting his ATM card PIN?
(a) His stupidity.
(b) His panic.
(c) His fragility.
(d) His looming senescence.

3. What does Julius say explains the sense of hermeticism in the paintings of John Brewster?
(a) Brewster’s depression.
(b) Brewster’s deafness.
(c) Brewster’s patron’s demands.
(d) The artistic standard of the times.

4. What issue is remarkably absent from Julius, Farouq and Khalil’s discussion of Middle East politics?
(a) Murder of civilians.
(b) Tyrants.
(c) Oil.
(d) Civil wars.

5. What rule does Julius break, in the memory he recalls in Chapter 10 from having been left at home?
(a) Not to swim without supervision.
(b) Not to drink the soft drinks.
(c) Not to go to town alone.
(d) Not to go outside till his homework is done.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Julius characterize Brussels’ strategy for surviving the second world war?

2. What does the clerk at the post office share with Julius in Chapter 16?

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

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

5. How much does Julius say he carries around his patients’ experiences and stories?

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