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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Julius say his study at the hospital shows a correlation between?
(a) Exercise and depression.
(b) Depression and suicide.
(c) Diet and heart disease.
(d) Strokes and depression.

2. How does Julius characterize Brussels’ strategy for surviving the second world war?
(a) Remaining neutral.
(b) Collaborating.
(c) Surrendering.
(d) Resisting.

3. What does Julius say he used to test the depth of the well at the house he grew up in in Nigeria?
(a) A string.
(b) A measuring tape.
(c) A stick.
(d) A stone.

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

5. How much does Julius say he carries around his patients’ experiences and stories?
(a) He says that he cannot stop thinking about them.
(b) He says that he does not think about them, and needs to refresh his memory at every visit.
(c) He says that he will go home and read books that shed light on their conditions.
(d) He says that he thinks of them in idle moment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused Saidu to flee his country?

2. How does Julius characterize the work he does when he is redoing the lab work for the paper he has written?

3. How does Julius say he and his mother responded to Julius’ father’s death?

4. Whose music does Julius hear that causes him to stop shopping and sit and listen in the Tower Records?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of trip does Julius make to Brussels?

2. What does Julius say his relationship with his mother is like?

3. What does Julius say his work requires of him, and what does he say he enjoys about it?

4. What are Julius’ thoughts on the weather and global warming?

5. What is the style of the opening pages of Open City, and what kind of expectation do they set up in the reader?

6. How does Farouq surprise Julius?

7. How does Julius describe his encounter with the Czechoslovakian tourist he meets in the café?

8. What does Nadège’s limp make Julius think about, and what does it make him see about Nadège?

9. At the book's beginning, why does the narrator says that he goes for long walks?

10. What theme emerges in the clothing Julius notices on the people all around him in his wanderings through the city at the beginning of Chapter 4?

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