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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 of Farouq’s two projects?
(a) To return home.
(b) To bring his family to Brussels.
(c) To finish his studies.
(d) To undermine the European Union.

2. 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 tranquility, not retribution.
(b) He rails against the immigrants who did this.
(c) He rails against the people who did not help.
(d) He calls for retribution.

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

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

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

6. What employment did Saidu find when he arrived in Lisbon?
(a) Barber.
(b) Taxi driver.
(c) Policeman.
(d) Laborer.

7. What does Julius reflect on, after seeing the film The Last King of Scotland?
(a) His desire to know the world on any terms necessary.
(b) His desire to gain power over people who perform horrific acts.
(c) His desire to make sacrifices to right historical wrongs.
(d) His desire to be spared the knowledge of horrors.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What does Julius ransack his parents house looking for, while his mother is gone, in the childhood he remembers?
(a) Pornography.
(b) Coca-Cola.
(c) Money.
(d) Liquor.

14. What does Julius say he is struck by, in Farouq’s goals?
(a) His purity.
(b) His zealousness.
(c) His delusion.
(d) His single-mindedness.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of weather does Julius escape when he goes into the American Folk Art Museum?

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

3. What is V.’s book about?

4. How much does Julius say he carries around his patients’ experiences and stories?

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

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