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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Julius watches the snowflakes come down after meeting with his accountant in Chapter 13, he feels a furious sense of what?
(a) Homesickness.
(b) Well-being.
(c) Harmony.
(d) Imbalance.

2. Julius says that the world seems to fall under Obatala’s influence: what is Obatala responsible for?
(a) Bringing harvests.
(b) Creating people.
(c) The flights of birds.
(d) Changing the seasons.

3. How does Julius characterize his grandfather’s status in Nigeria?
(a) Local official.
(b) Respected craftsman.
(c) Inconsequential laborer.
(d) Power broker.

4. What does Julius say he has a hard time believing about people who lived before the twenty-first century?
(a) That they had their own teeth past early adulthood.
(b) That they lived to old age.
(c) That they were fully people.
(d) That they had the same souls as people today.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julius think about doing in the boat basin behind the World Financial Center?

2. What kind of weather does Julius escape when he goes into the American Folk Art Museum?

3. When Julius sees children on a playground on his way home from the appointment with his accountant in Chapter 13, what does he say the creak-creak of the swings signifies to them?

4. What is Dr. Maillotte reading on the flight with Julius?

5. Where is John Musson’s apartment, that Julius goes to the party Moji invites him to?

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