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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect does Julius’ father’s death have on Julius’ studies?
(a) He starts to party too much.
(b) He is distracted and almost fails out.
(c) He has difficulty managing his family affairs and his studies simultaneously.
(d) He throws himself in and excels.

2. What does Julius ransack his parents house looking for, while his mother is gone, in the childhood he remembers?
(a) Pornography.
(b) Money.
(c) Liquor.
(d) Coca-Cola.

3. What is Julius’ field of practice?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Psychiatry.
(c) Geriatrics.
(d) Oncology.

4. How does Julius characterize his mother’s feelings about Nigeria?
(a) She hated it because she felt trapped there.
(b) She hated it because she did not feel at home there.
(c) She loved it because she had come to belong there.
(d) She loved it but could never belong there.

5. How does Julius characterize the city when he comes out of the Wall Street subway stop?
(a) A living entity.
(b) A miniature model.
(c) A rough draft.
(d) A palimpsest.

6. What does Julius say he was sent to the Nigerian Military School to get?
(a) Medical training.
(b) Discipline.
(c) Technical training.
(d) A liberal arts education.

7. Where had Julius’ mother been born?
(a) Berlin.
(b) London.
(c) Lagos.
(d) Yorubaland.

8. What does Julius say his friend is passionate about?
(a) Native American culture.
(b) Local history.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Birding.

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

10. What is Julius’ stance on global warming?
(a) He is a skeptical believer.
(b) He is a doubter.
(c) He is a believer.
(d) He is a strenuous denier.

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

12. What is the second of Farouq’s two projects?
(a) To bring his family from home to Brussels.
(b) To invent a set of rituals for decolonization.
(c) To determine what it takes for different people to live together.
(d) To start a prayer and reading society.

13. What is it that Farouq spends a good deal of time and thought trying to protect, intellectually?
(a) The hope of becoming a local, again.
(b) The concept of cultural difference.
(c) The possibility of cultural unification.
(d) The promise of cultural assimilation.

14. What is Nadège’s relationship with Julius?
(a) Friend.
(b) Ex-girlfriend.
(c) Co-worker.
(d) Girlfriend.

15. What employment did Saidu find when he arrived in Lisbon?
(a) Laborer.
(b) Policeman.
(c) Taxi driver.
(d) Barber.

Short Answer Questions

1. What recent event has created controversy in Brussels, when Julius arrives there?

2. How does Julius say he and his mother responded to Julius’ father’s death?

3. What does the poet want to talk about, instead of reading poetry, when Julius goes to the 92nd Street Y?

4. On his way home from the cinema, who does Julius have a presentiment about seeing again?

5. What did Pierre, the bootblack who shines Julius’ shoes, used to do before he became a boot black?

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