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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Julius characterize Brussels’ strategy for surviving the second world war?
(a) Remaining neutral.
(b) Collaborating.
(c) Resisting.
(d) Surrendering.

2. What is Julius treating V. for?
(a) Multiple personality disorder.
(b) Depression.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Schizophrenia.

3. What is Julius’ (unnamed) friend’s field of expertise?
(a) Literature.
(b) Earth sciences.
(c) Psychology.
(d) History.

4. At what age was Julius sent to boarding school?
(a) 14.
(b) 9.
(c) 10.
(d) 7.

5. What do Julius, Farouq and Farouq’s friend Khalil agree on, in terms of the portrayal of blacks in America and Muslims in Europe?
(a) That the people are responsible for how they are portrayed.
(b) That the portrayal is created in advance by the unconscious of the race.
(c) That the people with power control the portrayal.
(d) That one or two men determine how the whole society sees them.

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

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

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

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

10. What kind of music does Julius say he listens to?
(a) Classical.
(b) Classic rock.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Rock.

11. 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 a girl he went to school with.
(b) It makes him think of migrating birds.
(c) It makes him have compassion for Nadège’s experiences.
(d) It makes him think of an illness he had suffered through.

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

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

14. What happens to decrease the tension over the recent incident in Brussels when Julius visits?
(a) Reporters find out that the attackers are not Muslim.
(b) The police refuse to file charges.
(c) The victim denies the events took place.
(d) The perpetrators turn themselves in.

15. How old is Julius?
(a) 32.
(b) 28.
(c) 38.
(d) 22.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julius say his friend is passionate about?

2. What does Dr. Maillotte say the actual ethnic composition of Brussels is?

3. How does Julius say his field of study compares to other fields?

4. What is the main impression Julius gives of the dream he has at the beginning of Chapter 10?

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

(see the answer keys)

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