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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 sense of humor.
(b) Farouq’s ambition.
(c) Farouq’s conscientiousness.
(d) Farouq’s intellect.

2. How does Julius say his mother saw her mother, Julius’ oma?
(a) As loving and generous.
(b) As delusional.
(c) As pathetic and a little crazy.
(d) As difficult and mean-spirited.

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

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

5. What disease does Julius say killed his father?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Emphysema.
(d) Diabetes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What recent event has created controversy in Brussels, when Julius arrives there?

2. What employment did Saidu find when he arrived in Lisbon?

3. What issue is remarkably absent from Julius, Farouq and Khalil’s discussion of Middle East politics?

4. What caused Saidu to flee his country?

5. What is Julius treating M. for?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Julius explain his split with Nadège?

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

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

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. 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?

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

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

8. 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?

9. Who does Julius imagine he sees, as he enters Brussels?

10. What does Julius say his relationship with his mother is like?

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