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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 is Dr. Maillotte’s connection with Eduoard Empain, who built Heliopolis in Egypt?
(a) She is descended from him.
(b) She is married to his grandson.
(c) She knows his grandson.
(d) Just that she has visited the city.

2. Where had Julius’ mother been born?
(a) London.
(b) Yorubaland.
(c) Lagos.
(d) Berlin.

3. How does Julius say he sees the other people who are around when he is in the atrium above the Wall Street subway station?
(a) As dangerous animals.
(b) As kindly domesticated animals.
(c) As robots.
(d) As life-size mannequins.

4. Where is Open City set?
(a) New York city.
(b) Long Island.
(c) Albany.
(d) New York suburbs.

5. What is Dr. Maillotte reading on the flight with Julius?
(a) Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition.
(b) Sontag’s essays.
(c) Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking.
(d) Sartre’s The Nausea.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Julius describe the expression of the Welcomers when they get to the immigrant detention facility?

2. What is Julius’ (unnamed) friend’s field of expertise?

3. What issue is remarkably absent from Julius, Farouq and Khalil’s discussion of Middle East politics?

4. What does Dr. Maillotte say the actual ethnic composition of Brussels is?

5. What is V.’s book about?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Julius contemplate doing when he thinks about his patient, M., at the boat basin behind the World Financial Center?

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

5. What political controversy is playing out when Julius arrives in Brussels?

6. How does Farouq surprise Julius?

7. What stereotype does Dr. Maillotte, the woman who sits next to Julius on the plane to Brussels, hold about Nigerians, and how does Julius respond to her cast-typing?

8. What are Farouq’s two projects?

9. What is it about Coca-Cola that the younger Julius found so appealing?

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

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