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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 it about Farouq that surprises Julius?
(a) Farouq’s conscientiousness.
(b) Farouq’s sense of humor.
(c) Farouq’s intellect.
(d) Farouq’s ambition.

2. How does Julius characterize Saidu’s narrative?
(a) Like a trickle of information.
(b) Like a unblocked aquifer.
(c) Like an avalanche of information.
(d) Like a cautious testimony.

3. What is Julius’ status in the hospital?
(a) Resident.
(b) Director.
(c) Fellow.
(d) Student.

4. What does Dr. Maillotte tell Julius she thinks about Nigerians?
(a) That they are shifty.
(b) That they are genial.
(c) That they are lazy.
(d) That they are arrogant.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On his way home from the cinema, who does Julius have a presentiment about seeing again?

3. What does Mayken, Julius’ short-term landlord for his stay in Brussels, tell him the ethnic composition of Brussels was supposed to be?

4. How does Julius’ cabbie show his disapproval for Julius’ behavior after driving him home from the American Folk Art Museum?

5. How does Julius say his mother saw her mother, Julius’ oma?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. How does Julius explain his split with Nadège?

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

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

8. What stereotype does Dr. Maillotte, the woman who sits next to Julius on the plane to Brussels, hold about Nigerians, and how does Julius respond to her cast-typing?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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