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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 is missing in Dr. Saito’s apartment in Chapter 14?
(a) Mementos from Dr. Saito’s internment.
(b) Books.
(c) Family photographs.
(d) Decorations.

2. What does Julius say Americans have exhausted themselves with, during the picnic in Central Park?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Productivity.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Enjoyment.

3. What happens to decrease the tension over the recent incident in Brussels when Julius visits?
(a) The perpetrators turn themselves in.
(b) Reporters find out that the attackers are not Muslim.
(c) The police refuse to file charges.
(d) The victim denies the events took place.

4. How does Julius characterize the effect Mahler’s symphony has on him?
(a) It filled his heart with light.
(b) It stills his thoughts.
(c) It fills him with visions.
(d) It floods his heart with feelings.

5. What is Dr. Maillotte reading on the flight with Julius?
(a) Sontag’s essays.
(b) Sartre’s The Nausea.
(c) Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking.
(d) Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Julius characterize the work he does when he is redoing the lab work for the paper he has written?

2. How much vacation time does Julius use for his trip to Brussels?

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

4. Who does Julius ask for help after being beaten and robbed?

5. What does Julius say his memory of his father’s burial has merged with?

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