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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Julius notice about people’s clothing, as he takes the subway around the city?
(a) That it is extremely variable.
(b) That it expresses people’s individualism.
(c) That it reflects numerous cultures.
(d) That it is mostly dark colors.

2. How does Julius characterize his feeling when he is watching the marching band in Chinatown in Chapter 16?
(a) Dreamy.
(b) Disturbed.
(c) Disoriented.
(d) At home.

3. What does Julius say was the true source of second-class warrant officer Musibau’s anger at him?
(a) He saw Julius as a colonizer.
(b) He saw Julius as a worthless African.
(c) He saw Julius as an outsider.
(d) He saw Julius as an insubordinate soldier.

4. Who wrote the cantatas Julius had heard at Lincoln Center, before coming to visit Dr. Saito?
(a) Tchaikovsky.
(b) Stravinsky.
(c) Rachmaninov.
(d) Bach.

5. What does Julius say he associated classical music with?
(a) Clouds over the city.
(b) Migrating geese.
(c) His patients.
(d) Traffic in the city streets.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Julius characterize his feeling while he reads the news to Dr. Saito?

2. What does Julius say he felt comforted by when he went to the tailor’s shop to get clothes for his father’s funeral?

3. What does Nadège tell Julius when he calls her with news of Dr. Saito’s death?

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

5. What does Julius say his experience of his oma’s visit was like, when she came to visit in Nigeria?

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