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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 local bishop say in response to the event that has created controversy in Brussels when Julius arrives there?
(a) He calls for tranquility, not retribution.
(b) He calls for retribution.
(c) He rails against the immigrants who did this.
(d) He rails against the people who did not help.

2. What does Dr. Maillotte say the actual ethnic composition of Brussels is?
(a) 48% Walloon, 48% Flemish, and 4% % Arab and African.
(b) 40% Walloon, 40% Flemish, and 20% Arab and African.
(c) 95% Walloon, 1% Flemish, and 4% Arab and African.
(d) 75%Walloon, 21% Flemish and 4% Arab and African.

3. What does Julius say was the true source of second-class warrant officer Musibau’s anger at him?
(a) He saw Julius as an insubordinate soldier.
(b) He saw Julius as a worthless African.
(c) He saw Julius as a colonizer.
(d) He saw Julius as an outsider.

4. What is Julius’ stance on global warming?
(a) He is a skeptical believer.
(b) He is a strenuous denier.
(c) He is a doubter.
(d) He is a believer.

5. At what age was Julius sent to boarding school?
(a) 10.
(b) 14.
(c) 7.
(d) 9.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens after Julius breaks his mother’s rule in Chapter 10?

2. What is V.’s book about?

3. What is Dr. Maillotte’s field of medicine?

4. What position is Farouq determined to advocate in his work?

5. How does Julius characterize Brussels’ strategy for surviving the second world war?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. What are Farouq’s two projects?

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

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

8. How does Julius say he ended up at the Nigerian Military School, when his father was not a soldier?

9. How does Julius react to the waitress who brings him his coffee in the café in Grand Sablon?

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

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