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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which postmodern writer’s story about a giant, 1:1 map of New York city does Julius think about having read?
(a) Delillo.
(b) Barthelme.
(c) Barthes.
(d) Borges.

2. When Julius sees children on a playground on his way home from the appointment with his accountant in Chapter 13, what does he say the creak-creak of the swings signifies to them?
(a) That their parents are there to push them.
(b) That they are having fun.
(c) That they are surrounded by familiar things.
(d) That they need to be careful.

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

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

5. How does Julius characterize the gait of the two boys who beat him up?
(a) Like soldiers.
(b) Like girls.
(c) Like sharks.
(d) Like athletes.

6. What does Julius say his generation is the first generation not to be familiar with?
(a) Corruption.
(b) Death in childbirth.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Mass death.

7. What does Julius notice is missing in Dr. Saito’s apartment in Chapter 14?
(a) Decorations.
(b) Family photographs.
(c) Mementos from Dr. Saito’s internment.
(d) Books.

8. 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) The Louvre.
(c) 1939 World’s Fair.
(d) 1964 World’s Fair.

9. What state is Dr. Saito’s helper Mary in when Julius goes to visit his friend in Chapter 15?
(a) Furious.
(b) Distraught.
(c) Ill with a cold.
(d) Heavily pregnant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julius say is the greatest trial Dr. Saito has endured?

2. What is the man doing in the subway cars, when Julius notices him on the 18th anniversary of his father’s burial?

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

4. What does Julius say he has a hard time believing about people who lived before the twenty-first century?

5. Whose obituary do the street performers make Julius think of?

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