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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 the poet want to talk about, instead of reading poetry, when Julius goes to the 92nd Street Y?
(a) Persecution.
(b) Love.
(c) Colonialism.
(d) History.

2. Where had Dr. Maillotte done her medical training?
(a) New York.
(b) Louvain.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Lagos.

3. What issue is remarkably absent from Julius, Farouq and Khalil’s discussion of Middle East politics?
(a) Oil.
(b) Civil wars.
(c) Tyrants.
(d) Murder of civilians.

4. How old is Julius?
(a) 28.
(b) 32.
(c) 38.
(d) 22.

5. What is it that Farouq spends a good deal of time and thought trying to protect, intellectually?
(a) The promise of cultural assimilation.
(b) The concept of cultural difference.
(c) The possibility of cultural unification.
(d) The hope of becoming a local, again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dr. Maillotte’s connection with Eduoard Empain, who built Heliopolis in Egypt?

2. Where had Julius’ mother been born?

3. What happens to decrease the tension over the recent incident in Brussels when Julius visits?

4. Where is Saidu from?

5. What is Julius’ status in the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Teju Cole’s internal, peripatetic style in Open City?

2. 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?

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

4. What importance does Heliopolis hold, in the conversation between Julius and Dr. Maillotte?

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

6. What made the detained immigrant Saidu leave Liberia?

7. What kind of person does Julius show himself to be in the taxi he gets home from American Folk Art Museum?

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

9. What is the feeling Julius wakes up from his dream with, in the beginning of Chapter 10, in his first days in Brussels?

10. What are Farouq’s two projects?

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