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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 did Pierre, the bootblack who shines Julius’ shoes, used to do before he became a boot black?
(a) Policeman.
(b) Janitor.
(c) Hairdresser.
(d) Butcher.

2. What is Julius’ field of practice?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Geriatrics.
(c) Psychiatry.
(d) Oncology.

3. What is Julius treating V. for?
(a) Multiple personality disorder.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Depression.
(d) Anxiety.

4. What does Julius say he associated classical music with?
(a) Traffic in the city streets.
(b) Clouds over the city.
(c) Migrating geese.
(d) His patients.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Julius’ mother been born?

2. What does Julius think about doing in the boat basin behind the World Financial Center?

3. What did Saidu have to invent, in order to get a passport?

4. What does the Wall Street subway station remind Julius of?

5. What employment did Saidu find when he arrived in Lisbon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the scene Julius remembers from Dr. Gupta’s house, while he is watching The Last King of Scotland?

2. How does Farouq surprise Julius?

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

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

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

6. What memory does the rain spur in Julius’ trip to Brussels?

7. 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?

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

9. What is Julius’ relationship with his oma like?

10. How does the incident in which Musibau accused Julius of stealing his paper ultimately work in Julius’ favor?

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