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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Julius goes to the Munkasci exhibit at the Center of Photography, he thinks of the photographic concept of the “decisive moment” (152). Which photographer coined this term, and philosophy?
(a) Munkasci.
(b) Cartier-Bresson.
(c) Capa.
(d) Stieglitz.

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

4. What constant struggle does Julius exclaim on, after protecting the woman and her baby from the wind-blown construction barriers on rue Philippe?
(a) To do good things in the world.
(b) To modulate the internal environment.
(c) To find ways to interact with fellow people.
(d) To be in the right place at the right time.

5. Who does Julius feel watched by as he goes to the post office in Chapter 16?
(a) A squirrel.
(b) A red-tailed hawk.
(c) A homeless man.
(d) A policeman.

6. 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) Suspiciously.
(d) Angrily.

7. When Julius goes to see Dr. Saito in the beginning of Chapter 14, what is Dr. Saito having a hard time with?
(a) Bedbugs.
(b) Walking.
(c) Sciatica.
(d) Breathing.

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

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

10. What does Julius say he is more likely to do in the months of March, April and May?
(a) Visit museums.
(b) Seek out the company of others.
(c) Put in long hours at work.
(d) Travel.

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

12. What does Julius say the boys who beat him up and robbed him were intent on doing?
(a) Humiliating him.
(b) Teaching him a lesson.
(c) Killing him.
(d) Making him afraid.

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

14. Flying back to New York, Julius remembers having seen the city from a similar vantage point: when looking a vast scale model of the city. Where was that scale model exhibited?
(a) The Smithsonian.
(b) 1939 World’s Fair.
(c) 1964 World’s Fair.
(d) The Louvre.

15. Why does Julius say he avoided visiting Dr. Saito again while he was dying?
(a) He says that he wanted to avoid the drama of death.
(b) He says that he was afraid to see his friend suffering.
(c) He says that he was too busy.
(d) He says that he was angry with his friend for not telling him what he wanted to hear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Saito die of?

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

3. What does the clerk at the post office share with Julius in Chapter 16?

4. When Julius goes to the club Le Panais, where does Julius say he thought all the Africans in Brussels were from?

5. What is the white man teaching the Asian woman in the diner where Julius sees them in Chapter 18?

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