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

2. What is it about Farouq that surprises Julius?
(a) Farouq’s conscientiousness.
(b) Farouq’s intellect.
(c) Farouq’s ambition.
(d) Farouq’s sense of humor.

3. What kind of luck does Julius have in finding his oma while in Brussels?
(a) He gives up when he fails to find a listing for her in any phone books.
(b) He finds her number, but never hears back when he leaves a message.
(c) He hears back from her, but they never connect on account of scheduling issues.
(d) He follows numerous leads throughout the city, and never contacts her.

4. What does Dr. Maillotte tell Julius she thinks about Nigerians?
(a) That they are lazy.
(b) That they are arrogant.
(c) That they are genial.
(d) That they are shifty.

5. What does Mayken, Julius’ short-term landlord for his stay in Brussels, tell him the ethnic composition of Brussels was supposed to be?
(a) Equal parts Flemish, Walloon, French and immigrant.
(b) All Walloon.
(c) All Flemish.
(d) Half Walloon, half Flemish.

6. How does Nadège’s limp affect Julius, when he joins her on a trip to the immigrant detention facility?
(a) It makes him think of migrating birds.
(b) It makes him have compassion for Nadège’s experiences.
(c) It makes him think of a girl he went to school with.
(d) It makes him think of an illness he had suffered through.

7. What happens after Julius breaks his mother’s rule in Chapter 10?
(a) His father sends him to his room.
(b) His mother canes him.
(c) He is not punished.
(d) His grandmother makes him clean the house.

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

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

10. What does Julius notice about people’s clothing, as he takes the subway around the city?
(a) That it expresses people’s individualism.
(b) That it reflects numerous cultures.
(c) That it is extremely variable.
(d) That it is mostly dark colors.

11. What disease does Julius say killed his father?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Emphysema.
(d) Diabetes.

12. What is Julius’ status in the hospital?
(a) Resident.
(b) Student.
(c) Fellow.
(d) Director.

13. When does Julius say he was estranged from his mother?
(a) At 17.
(b) At 24.
(c) At 21.
(d) At 28.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Julius say he was sent to the Nigerian Military School to get?

3. What does Julius say fatigues him about boarding the plane?

4. Whose music does Julius hear that causes him to stop shopping and sit and listen in the Tower Records?

5. What hospital does Julius work at?

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