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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What hospital does Julius work at?
(a) Cabrini.
(b) Mt. Sinai.
(c) Columbia Presbyterian.
(d) NYU Medical Center.

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

4. What kind of weather does Julius escape when he goes into the American Folk Art Museum?
(a) Driving snow.
(b) Torrential rain.
(c) Hail and thunder.
(d) Blinding sunshine.

5. Why does Julius say he is hesitant to call Nadège in Chapter 12?
(a) Because he does not want to admit that he made too much of their relationship.
(b) Because he is still angry about the way she left him so suddenly.
(c) Because he is not ready to apologize to her yet.
(d) Because he still does not understand why they split up.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age was Julius sent to boarding school?

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

3. What issue is remarkably absent from Julius, Farouq and Khalil’s discussion of Middle East politics?

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

5. When Julius sees a bust of poet Paul Claudel, what aspect of Claudel’s legacy does Julius think time will redeem?

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