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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did Saidu have to invent, in order to get a passport?
(a) A birthdate.
(b) A name.
(c) A nationality.
(d) A home town.
2. Where had Julius’ mother been born?
(a) Berlin.
(b) London.
(c) Yorubaland.
(d) Lagos.
3. What is it about Farouq that surprises Julius?
(a) Farouq’s sense of humor.
(b) Farouq’s conscientiousness.
(c) Farouq’s ambition.
(d) Farouq’s intellect.
4. What does Julius say fatigues him about boarding the plane?
(a) Containing his heartbreak over a scared child.
(b) Controlling his anger at boarding agents.
(c) Holding his tongue while he is interrogated by the FBI.
(d) Remaining patient after numerous delays.
5. 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.
6. What does Dr. Maillotte say the actual ethnic composition of Brussels is?
(a) 75%Walloon, 21% Flemish and 4% Arab and African.
(b) 40% Walloon, 40% Flemish, and 20% Arab and African.
(c) 95% Walloon, 1% Flemish, and 4% Arab and African.
(d) 48% Walloon, 48% Flemish, and 4% % Arab and African.
7. What does Dr. Maillotte tell Julius she thinks about Ghanaians?
(a) That they are lazy.
(b) That they are arrogant.
(c) That they are genial.
(d) That they are shifty.
8. What was Julius’ friend Dr. Saito’s field of study?
(a) Psychology.
(b) History.
(c) Anthropology.
(d) English literature.
9. What does Julius say his study at the hospital shows a correlation between?
(a) Exercise and depression.
(b) Diet and heart disease.
(c) Depression and suicide.
(d) Strokes and depression.
10. Where is Open City set?
(a) Albany.
(b) Long Island.
(c) New York suburbs.
(d) New York city.
11. What is Dr. Maillotte reading on the flight with Julius?
(a) Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking.
(b) Sartre’s The Nausea.
(c) Sontag’s essays.
(d) Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition.
12. Whose music does Julius hear that causes him to stop shopping and sit and listen in the Tower Records?
(a) Mahler.
(b) Schumann.
(c) Vivaldi.
(d) Brahms.
13. When does Julius say he was estranged from his mother?
(a) At 21.
(b) At 17.
(c) At 24.
(d) At 28.
14. What does Julius say explains the sense of hermeticism in the paintings of John Brewster?
(a) Brewster’s patron’s demands.
(b) Brewster’s deafness.
(c) Brewster’s depression.
(d) The artistic standard of the times.
15. What does Julius reflect on, after seeing the film The Last King of Scotland?
(a) His desire to make sacrifices to right historical wrongs.
(b) His desire to know the world on any terms necessary.
(c) His desire to be spared the knowledge of horrors.
(d) His desire to gain power over people who perform horrific acts.
Short Answer Questions
1. What disease does Julius say killed his father?
2. What is Dr. Maillotte’s connection with Eduoard Empain, who built Heliopolis in Egypt?
3. What position is Farouq determined to advocate in his work?
4. What is the first of Farouq’s two projects?
5. How does Julius describe sex with this tourist whose name he does not know?
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