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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 Julius not end up having to tell the woman he has sex with in Brussels?
(a) This cannot happen again.
(b) I want to see you again.
(c) Whether he thought the night was good or bad.
(d) I could really care for you.

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

3. What is the main impression Julius gives of the dream he has at the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Fear.
(c) Panic.
(d) Belonging.

4. What happens to decrease the tension over the recent incident in Brussels when Julius visits?
(a) Reporters find out that the attackers are not Muslim.
(b) The police refuse to file charges.
(c) The victim denies the events took place.
(d) The perpetrators turn themselves in.

5. What happens after Julius breaks his mother’s rule in Chapter 10?
(a) His mother canes him.
(b) His grandmother makes him clean the house.
(c) He is not punished.
(d) His father sends him to his room.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Julius treating V. for?

2. What does Julius say he associated classical music with?

3. What does Julius say he used to test the depth of the well at the house he grew up in in Nigeria?

4. Whose music does Julius hear that causes him to stop shopping and sit and listen in the Tower Records?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What do we know about Julius’ relationships, in this first chapter?

10. How does Farouq surprise Julius?

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