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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Julius characterize his personality during the picnic in Central Park?
(a) Disingenuous and hard-hearted.
(b) Proud and arrogant.
(c) Shifty and duplicitous.
(d) Fundamentally indecisive.

3. What is V.’s book about?
(a) The financing of slave ships.
(b) The murder of Native Americans in New York.
(c) The expansion of trade routes in colonial New York.
(d) The invention of machinery.

4. What is the white man teaching the Asian woman in the diner where Julius sees them in Chapter 18?
(a) Chinese.
(b) English.
(c) Latin.
(d) Calculus.

5. What is Dr. Maillotte’s field of medicine?
(a) Gerontology.
(b) Oncology.
(c) Gastrointestinal surgery.
(d) Epidemiology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Open City set?

2. Flying back to New York, Julius remembers having seen the city from a similar vantage point: when looking a vast scale model of the city. Where was that scale model exhibited?

3. How does Julius characterize Saidu’s narrative?

4. Where had Julius’ mother been born?

5. What is the man doing in the subway cars, when Julius notices him on the 18th anniversary of his father’s burial?

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