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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 reflect on, after seeing the film The Last King of Scotland?
(a) His desire to gain power over people who perform horrific acts.
(b) His desire to be spared the knowledge of horrors.
(c) His desire to make sacrifices to right historical wrongs.
(d) His desire to know the world on any terms necessary.

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

3. How does Nadège’s limp affect Julius, when he joins her on a trip to the immigrant detention facility?
(a) It makes him think of a girl he went to school with.
(b) It makes him think of migrating birds.
(c) It makes him think of an illness he had suffered through.
(d) It makes him have compassion for Nadège’s experiences.

4. What kind of weather does Julius escape when he goes into the American Folk Art Museum?
(a) Driving snow.
(b) Hail and thunder.
(c) Blinding sunshine.
(d) Torrential rain.

5. What does Mayken, Julius’ short-term landlord for his stay in Brussels, tell him the ethnic composition of Brussels was supposed to be?
(a) Half Walloon, half Flemish.
(b) All Flemish.
(c) All Walloon.
(d) Equal parts Flemish, Walloon, French and immigrant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Julius’ friend Dr. Saito’s field of study?

2. What is Julius’ (unnamed) friend’s field of expertise?

3. What is the first thing Saidu asks Julius when he meets him at the immigrant detention facility?

4. How does Julius characterize Saidu’s narrative?

5. What is it that Farouq spends a good deal of time and thought trying to protect, intellectually?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Farouq’s two projects?

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

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

4. At the book's beginning, why does the narrator says that he goes for long walks?

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

6. 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?

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

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. How does Julius explain his split with Nadège?

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

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