Open City Test | Final Test - Medium

Teju Cole
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 171 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Open City Test | Final Test - Medium

Teju Cole
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 171 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 old was Julius when Moji said he forced himself on her?
(a) 14.
(b) 18.
(c) 20.
(d) 16.

2. Whose obituary do the street performers make Julius think of?
(a) His father’s.
(b) His oma’s.
(c) M.’s.
(d) V.’s.

3. Where is John Musson’s apartment, that Julius goes to the party Moji invites him to?
(a) Harlem.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Washington Heights.
(d) Morningside Heights.

4. Where were Julius and Moji when Moji said he forced himself on her?
(a) At a party Julius had hosted.
(b) At school after the school day.
(c) In the woods behind her house.
(d) At a party her brother hosted in her house.

5. What does Julius say he has a hard time believing about people who lived before the twenty-first century?
(a) That they were fully people.
(b) That they lived to old age.
(c) That they had the same souls as people today.
(d) That they had their own teeth past early adulthood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Flying back to New York, Julius remembers having seen the city from a similar vantage point: when looking a vast scale model of the city. Where was that scale model exhibited?

2. What is the source of the dissonance in the organ music in Notre Dame?

3. Why does Julius say he avoided visiting Dr. Saito again while he was dying?

4. How does Julius characterize the effect Mahler’s symphony has on him?

5. How many times does Julius try his PIN in various cash machines before he gives up in Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Julius’ reaction to meeting Moji Kasali?

2. What does Dr. Saito tell Julius when he visits him in his illness?

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

4. What is Julius’ relationship like with the character he never names, but simply calls “my friend” (179)?

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

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

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

8. What is Julius’ state of mind while he is reading the newspaper to Dr. Saito?

9. What are Julius’ dreams like, after he hears about Dr. Saito’s bedbugs?

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

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