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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 say the boys who beat him up and robbed him were intent on doing?
(a) Humiliating him.
(b) Making him afraid.
(c) Teaching him a lesson.
(d) Killing him.

2. What does Julius say is the greatest trial Dr. Saito has endured?
(a) Homophobia.
(b) Racism.
(c) Bereavement.
(d) Bedbugs.

3. What does Julius say the snow-covered city makes him feel in Chapter 14?
(a) Soporific.
(b) Depression.
(c) Levitation.
(d) Stagnation.

4. What state is Dr. Saito’s helper Mary in when Julius goes to visit his friend in Chapter 15?
(a) Furious.
(b) Distraught.
(c) Ill with a cold.
(d) Heavily pregnant.

5. How does Julius characterize the effect Mahler’s symphony has on him?
(a) It floods his heart with feelings.
(b) It filled his heart with light.
(c) It fills him with visions.
(d) It stills his thoughts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is there an explosion, in the dream Julius has in the beginning of Chapter 15?

2. What is the title Teju Cole gives to Part 2 of Open City, beginning with Chapter 12?

3. What constant struggle does Julius exclaim on, after protecting the woman and her baby from the wind-blown construction barriers on rue Philippe?

4. Where does Julius see Chinese women dancing, after seeing his accountant?

5. What does Nadège tell Julius when he calls her with news of Dr. Saito’s death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the vision Julius has while he is sitting in the park, watching the starlings?

2. What odd scene does Julius witness in the diner, where someone is learning Chinese?

3. How does the model of New York from the 1964 World’s Fair serve as a metaphor for the book?

4. How is Julius affected by V.’s death?

5. What was the last time before his fathers funeral that Julius says that he had seen a dead body?

6. Why has Julius missed Dr. Saito’s death?

7. How does Julius respond when his friend’s girlfriend Lise-Anne asks him about the most humorous cases he had seen among the mentally ill?

8. What happens to Julius when he forgets to bring his checkbook to the accountant, and why is it disturbing?

9. What does Julius say his relationship with winter is like?

10. What does the monument to the negro burial ground make Julius think about the reality of people in the past?

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