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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 Nadège’s relationship with Julius?
(a) Co-worker.
(b) Girlfriend.
(c) Ex-girlfriend.
(d) Friend.

2. What is the “halo” Julius sees around Dr. Saito’s head comprised of (11)?
(a) Renaissance prints.
(b) Ancient swords.
(c) Family photos.
(d) Polynesian masks.

3. What is the second of Farouq’s two projects?
(a) To bring his family from home to Brussels.
(b) To invent a set of rituals for decolonization.
(c) To determine what it takes for different people to live together.
(d) To start a prayer and reading society.

4. 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 knows his grandson.
(d) She is married to his grandson.

5. 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 life-size mannequins.
(b) As kindly domesticated animals.
(c) As dangerous animals.
(d) As robots.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julius say explains the sense of hermeticism in the paintings of John Brewster?

2. What question does Julius say he wakes up with, from his dream at the start of Chapter 10?

3. How much vacation time does Julius use for his trip to Brussels?

4. What does Julius say his study at the hospital shows a correlation between?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What are Farouq’s two projects?

9. Who is V. and what is her relationship with Julius?

10. How does Julius explain his split with Nadège?

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