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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Julius describe sex with this tourist whose name he does not know?
(a) Something he needed to do.
(b) Something she gave him.
(c) Something he was hungry for.
(d) Something she tolerated.

6. What is Julius treating M. for?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Suicidal thoughts.
(c) Depression.
(d) Delusions.

7. What hospital does Julius work at?
(a) NYU Medical Center.
(b) Columbia Presbyterian.
(c) Mt. Sinai.
(d) Cabrini.

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

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

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

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

12. What question does Julius say he wakes up with, from his dream at the start of Chapter 10?
(a) Whether his father is still alive.
(b) Whether his mother is really calling him.
(c) Whether he has a partner.
(d) Whether he is really awake.

13. What was Julius’ friend Dr. Saito’s field of study?
(a) English literature.
(b) Anthropology.
(c) History.
(d) Psychology.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Julius characterize Saidu’s narrative?

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

3. Where had Julius’ mother been born?

4. What does Julius notice about people’s clothing, as he takes the subway around the city?

5. What did Julius get a reputation for, after the affair of Musibau’s stolen newspaper, at the military school?

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