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

2. Who does Julius ask for help after being beaten and robbed?
(a) V.
(b) Nadège.
(c) His friend.
(d) Mary.

3. How long after Julius’ visit to Dr. Saito does Julius get a call saying that Dr. Saito has died?
(a) A few days.
(b) Several weeks.
(c) A week.
(d) Two months.

4. 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.

5. How many people stayed overnight at John Musson’s apartment after his party?
(a) 8.
(b) 2.
(c) 10.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the cantatas Julius had heard at Lincoln Center, before coming to visit Dr. Saito?

2. How does Julius characterize the gait of the two boys who beat him up?

3. What does Julius say his memory of his father’s burial has merged with?

4. Why would Julius have thought that the Africans in Brussels all came from this one place in Chapter 11?

5. What does Julius’ friend argue for, after Julius’ comments about Dr. Saito’s death?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Julius affected by his thoughts about slavery in New York?

2. How does Julius kill half an hour when he is early to meet Dr. Maillotte?

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

8. How does Julius say that he reacted when he saved the boy’s life who had been about to drown?

9. Chapter 11 marks the end of “Part 1: Death is a perfection of the eye.” In what way is this title appropriate to the first 11 chapters?

10. How does Julius respond when Moji tells Julius that she has never forgotten him sexually assaulting her when they were students?

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