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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Julius describe the expression of the Welcomers when they get to the immigrant detention facility?
(a) Concerned.
(b) Beatific.
(c) Grave.
(d) Patient.

4. What does the Wall Street subway station remind Julius of?
(a) A cathedral.
(b) A mall.
(c) A bomb shelter.
(d) A catacomb.

5. What position is Farouq determined to advocate in his work?
(a) That people are just the face of their cultures.
(b) That individuals can be spokespeople for their races.
(c) That all people are individuals.
(d) That history puts people in the roles it needs them to play.

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

7. How does Julius characterize the work he does when he is redoing the lab work for the paper he has written?
(a) Exacting.
(b) Careless.
(c) Meticulous.
(d) Shoddy.

8. What rule does Julius break, in the memory he recalls in Chapter 10 from having been left at home?
(a) Not to swim without supervision.
(b) Not to go outside till his homework is done.
(c) Not to drink the soft drinks.
(d) Not to go to town alone.

9. What does Dr. Maillotte say the actual ethnic composition of Brussels is?
(a) 75%Walloon, 21% Flemish and 4% Arab and African.
(b) 48% Walloon, 48% Flemish, and 4% % Arab and African.
(c) 40% Walloon, 40% Flemish, and 20% Arab and African.
(d) 95% Walloon, 1% Flemish, and 4% Arab and African.

10. What does the local bishop say in response to the event that has created controversy in Brussels when Julius arrives there?
(a) He calls for retribution.
(b) He calls for tranquility, not retribution.
(c) He rails against the people who did not help.
(d) He rails against the immigrants who did this.

11. What kind of weather does Julius escape when he goes into the American Folk Art Museum?
(a) Driving snow.
(b) Blinding sunshine.
(c) Hail and thunder.
(d) Torrential rain.

12. 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.

13. What does Julius say his experience of his oma’s visit was like, when she came to visit in Nigeria?
(a) Heartbreaking.
(b) Loving.
(c) Frustrating.
(d) Contentious.

14. What is Julius treating V. for?
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Depression.
(c) Multiple personality disorder.
(d) Schizophrenia.

15. What is Dr. Maillotte’s connection with Eduoard Empain, who built Heliopolis in Egypt?
(a) She knows his grandson.
(b) She is married to his grandson.
(c) She is descended from him.
(d) Just that she has visited the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Julius, Farouq and Farouq’s friend Khalil agree on, in terms of the portrayal of blacks in America and Muslims in Europe?

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

3. What happens to decrease the tension over the recent incident in Brussels when Julius visits?

4. What does Julius reflect on, after seeing the film The Last King of Scotland?

5. What does Mayken, Julius’ short-term landlord for his stay in Brussels, tell him the ethnic composition of Brussels was supposed to be?

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