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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the source of the dissonance in the organ music in Notre Dame?
(a) A floor waxing machine.
(b) A vacuum cleaner.
(c) A workman’s boom box.
(d) A workman’s power tools.

2. What does Nadège tell Julius when he calls her with news of Dr. Saito’s death?
(a) She tells him she is sorry to hear that.
(b) She tells him she is engaged.
(c) She tells him she will come back for the funeral.
(d) She tells him that she wants him back.

3. How does Julius regard the Africans he sees in Chapter 11, once he finds out where they really come from?
(a) Joyously.
(b) Spitefully.
(c) Angrily.
(d) Suspiciously.

4. What does Moji say she actively worries about, during the picnic in Central Park?
(a) The inner cities.
(b) The economy.
(c) The environment.
(d) The climate.

5. What is the white man teaching the Asian woman in the diner where Julius sees them in Chapter 18?
(a) Chinese.
(b) Latin.
(c) Calculus.
(d) English.

6. How does Julius characterize his grandfather’s status in Nigeria?
(a) Respected craftsman.
(b) Local official.
(c) Inconsequential laborer.
(d) Power broker.

7. What part of academia does Julius say he has never had a stomach for?
(a) The bureaucracy.
(b) The research.
(c) The competition.
(d) The needy students.

8. What does Julius’ friend argue for, after Julius’ comments about Dr. Saito’s death?
(a) Euthanasia.
(b) Right to die laws.
(c) Cancer research.
(d) The right to keep people on respirators.

9. What does Julius tell his friend he wanted from Dr. Saito in Chapter 15?
(a) A cry for help.
(b) Advice on his career.
(c) A place in his will.
(d) Words of wisdom.

10. What does Julius say his memory of his father’s burial has merged with?
(a) The Beatles’ song Rocky Raccoon.
(b) The movie Friday the 13th.
(c) The video for Michael Jackson’s song Thriller.
(d) Photos of the Holocaust.

11. What does Julius say the snow-covered city makes him feel in Chapter 14?
(a) Soporific.
(b) Stagnation.
(c) Depression.
(d) Levitation.

12. What is Moji reading during her picnic in Central Park with Julius and his friend and his friend’s girlfriend Lise-Anne?
(a) Hunter’s Sketches.
(b) Notes From Underground.
(c) Eugene Onegin.
(d) Anna Karenina.

13. How does Julius characterize his personality during the picnic in Central Park?
(a) Fundamentally indecisive.
(b) Shifty and duplicitous.
(c) Proud and arrogant.
(d) Disingenuous and hard-hearted.

14. How does Julius characterize his feeling when he is watching the marching band in Chinatown in Chapter 16?
(a) At home.
(b) Dreamy.
(c) Disturbed.
(d) Disoriented.

15. While Julius watches the snowflakes come down after meeting with his accountant in Chapter 13, he feels a furious sense of what?
(a) Well-being.
(b) Harmony.
(c) Imbalance.
(d) Homesickness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is John Musson’s apartment, that Julius goes to the party Moji invites him to?

2. What does Julius think about while he is being beaten and robbed?

3. What constant struggle does Julius exclaim on, after protecting the woman and her baby from the wind-blown construction barriers on rue Philippe?

4. What is the state of Dr. Saito’s mind when Julius goes to visit him in Chapter 15?

5. What does Julius say his generation is the first generation not to be familiar with?

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