View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the wound that Julius says Farouq carries?
(a) Having his dissertation declined.
(b) Having to fund his own way through school.
(c) Having been discriminated against.
(d) Having been forced out of his homeland.

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

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

6. What does Julius say fatigues him about boarding the plane?
(a) Containing his heartbreak over a scared child.
(b) Holding his tongue while he is interrogated by the FBI.
(c) Controlling his anger at boarding agents.
(d) Remaining patient after numerous delays.

7. How does Julius say his mother saw her mother, Julius’ oma?
(a) As loving and generous.
(b) As difficult and mean-spirited.
(c) As pathetic and a little crazy.
(d) As delusional.

8. What does Julius not end up having to tell the woman he has sex with in Brussels?
(a) I could really care for you.
(b) This cannot happen again.
(c) I want to see you again.
(d) Whether he thought the night was good or bad.

9. What effect does Julius say his curtness has on the waitress who brings him coffee in Grand Sablon?
(a) Indignation.
(b) Anger.
(c) Puzzlement.
(d) Displeasure.

10. On his way home from the cinema, who does Julius have a presentiment about seeing again?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His friend.
(d) His oma.

11. How does Julius say he sees the other people who are around when he is in the atrium above the Wall Street subway station?
(a) As robots.
(b) As dangerous animals.
(c) As life-size mannequins.
(d) As kindly domesticated animals.

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

13. What is the first thing Saidu asks Julius when he meets him at the immigrant detention facility?
(a) Whether he is tired.
(b) Whether he is Christian.
(c) Whether he is thirsty.
(d) Whether he is African.

14. What did Julius get a reputation for, after the affair of Musibau’s stolen newspaper, at the military school?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Shiftiness.
(c) Mendacity.
(d) Fearlessness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Julius treating V. for?

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

3. How does Julius describe sex with this tourist whose name he does not know?

4. What does the local bishop say in response to the event that has created controversy in Brussels when Julius arrives there?

5. What issue is remarkably absent from Julius, Farouq and Khalil’s discussion of Middle East politics?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 596 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample