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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. How does Julius characterize the city when he comes out of the Wall Street subway stop?
(a) A rough draft.
(b) A miniature model.
(c) A palimpsest.
(d) A living entity.

2. How does Julius characterize his mother’s feelings about Nigeria?
(a) She hated it because she felt trapped there.
(b) She hated it because she did not feel at home there.
(c) She loved it but could never belong there.
(d) She loved it because she had come to belong there.

3. What is the second of Farouq’s two projects?
(a) To determine what it takes for different people to live together.
(b) To bring his family from home to Brussels.
(c) To start a prayer and reading society.
(d) To invent a set of rituals for decolonization.

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

5. What is Dr. Maillotte’s connection with Eduoard Empain, who built Heliopolis in Egypt?
(a) She is married to his grandson.
(b) She knows his grandson.
(c) Just that she has visited the city.
(d) She is descended from him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Julius describe sex with this tourist whose name he does not know?

2. How does Julius describe the expression of the Welcomers when they get to the immigrant detention facility?

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

4. How does Nadège’s limp affect Julius, when he joins her on a trip to the immigrant detention facility?

5. What question does Julius say he wakes up with, from his dream at the start of Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What made the detained immigrant Saidu leave Liberia?

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

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

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

6. What are Farouq’s two projects?

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

8. How does Farouq surprise Julius?

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

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

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