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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Julius’ stance on global warming?
(a) He is a doubter.
(b) He is a believer.
(c) He is a skeptical believer.
(d) He is a strenuous denier.

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

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

5. Whose music does Julius hear that causes him to stop shopping and sit and listen in the Tower Records?
(a) Brahms.
(b) Schumann.
(c) Vivaldi.
(d) Mahler.

6. What does Julius reflect on, after seeing the film The Last King of Scotland?
(a) His desire to gain power over people who perform horrific acts.
(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 make sacrifices to right historical wrongs.

7. What does Dr. Maillotte, Julius’ seat partner, envy about Julius?
(a) His ability to fall asleep.
(b) His short legs.
(c) His appetite.
(d) His patience.

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

9. How does Julius describe the expression of the Welcomers when they get to the immigrant detention facility?
(a) Grave.
(b) Beatific.
(c) Patient.
(d) Concerned.

10. What does Julius think about doing in the boat basin behind the World Financial Center?
(a) Writing to his mother.
(b) Committing suicide.
(c) Returning to Nigeria.
(d) Traveling to Brussels.

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

12. What does Julius say explains the sense of hermeticism in the paintings of John Brewster?
(a) The artistic standard of the times.
(b) Brewster’s depression.
(c) Brewster’s patron’s demands.
(d) Brewster’s deafness.

13. Where had Dr. Maillotte done her medical training?
(a) Louvain.
(b) Lagos.
(c) Berlin.
(d) New York.

14. 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 follows numerous leads throughout the city, and never contacts her.
(d) He hears back from her, but they never connect on account of scheduling issues.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first of Farouq’s two projects?

2. What does the poet want to talk about, instead of reading poetry, when Julius goes to the 92nd Street Y?

3. Julius says that the world seems to fall under Obatala’s influence: what is Obatala responsible for?

4. What recent event has created controversy in Brussels, when Julius arrives there?

5. Where is Open City set?

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