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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dr. Saito die of?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Pneumonia.

2. What does Julius say is the greatest trial Dr. Saito has endured?
(a) Homophobia.
(b) Bedbugs.
(c) Racism.
(d) Bereavement.

3. Whom does Moji say she has told about the time Julius forced himself on her?
(a) Her brother.
(b) John Musson.
(c) Her boyfriend at the time.
(d) No one.

4. In Chapter 15, where does Dr. Saito tell Julius he is ready to go?
(a) The stars.
(b) The mountains.
(c) The sea.
(d) The forest.

5. How old does Julius say he was when his father died?
(a) 27.
(b) 14.
(c) 18.
(d) 22.

6. What does Julius say bound him to the boys who beat him up and rob him, the first time he saw them?
(a) Africanness.
(b) Being New Yorkers.
(c) Being men.
(d) Blackness.

7. How many times does Julius try his PIN in various cash machines before he gives up in Chapter 13?
(a) Five.
(b) A dozen.
(c) Two or three.
(d) Six or eight.

8. What does Julius say Americans have exhausted themselves with, during the picnic in Central Park?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Productivity.
(d) Enjoyment.

9. What is most of the news about, that Julius reads to Dr. Saito?
(a) Iran.
(b) Iraq.
(c) North Korea.
(d) Palestine.

10. What is Julius’ relationship to Moji Kasali?
(a) She is a woman he met on the subway.
(b) She is his one-time best friend’s older sister.
(c) She is a student from his school in Nigeria.
(d) She is a student from his medical studies.

11. What does the clerk at the post office share with Julius in Chapter 16?
(a) Some of his tea.
(b) Some of his poetry.
(c) Insights about the news.
(d) Words of wisdom from Africa.

12. How old does Julius say he was when his driver hit and killed a girl?
(a) Eight or nine.
(b) Six or seven.
(c) Four or five.
(d) Ten or eleven.

13. When Julius goes to the club Le Panais, where does Julius say he thought all the Africans in Brussels were from?
(a) Congo.
(b) Ethiopia.
(c) Liberia.
(d) Morocco.

14. What kind of music does the band play, that marches past the store where Julius stops in Chinatown in Chapter 16?
(a) A jazz classic.
(b) A march.
(c) A dirge.
(d) A fugue.

15. What is the title Teju Cole gives to Part 2 of Open City, beginning with Chapter 12?
(a) I have searched myself.
(b) Alone in the fog.
(c) Mother, where are you?
(d) The world still exists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Julius set up his private practice?

2. What was the subject of the cantatas Julius had heard at Lincoln Center, before coming to visit Dr. Saito?

3. When Julius sees a police officer’ with a handgun in his travels, what does he say he envies about the gun?

4. What is Julius’ reaction to Dr. Saito telling him that he is ready to die in Chapter 15?

5. Who does Julius feel watched by as he goes to the post office in Chapter 16?

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