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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 Statue of Liberty served as until 1902?
(a) A lighthouse.
(b) A detention center.
(c) A tourist destination.
(d) An immigration processing center.

2. What is the white man teaching the Asian woman in the diner where Julius sees them in Chapter 18?
(a) Calculus.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Latin.
(d) English.

3. How does Julius characterize his personality during the picnic in Central Park?
(a) Fundamentally indecisive.
(b) Disingenuous and hard-hearted.
(c) Shifty and duplicitous.
(d) Proud and arrogant.

4. What is the source of the dissonance in the organ music in Notre Dame?
(a) A floor waxing machine.
(b) A workman’s boom box.
(c) A vacuum cleaner.
(d) A workman’s power tools.

5. What is Julius’ reaction when he sees Hasidic Jews looking at Munkasci’s images of Goebbels?
(a) He focuses on their young children.
(b) He becomes quiet inside and very attentive.
(c) He goes to talk to them.
(d) He feels compelled to leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julius think about while he is being beaten and robbed?

2. How does Julius characterize his feeling when he is watching the marching band in Chinatown in Chapter 16?

3. How does Julius characterize Moji and Lise-Anne, respectively?

4. What does Julius say bound him to the boys who beat him up and rob him, the first time he saw them?

5. What consolation does Julius try to avoid offering himself, after being beaten up and robbed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Julius characterize his trip to the tailor to get clothing for his father’s funeral?

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

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

6. How does Julius react to Dr. Saito’s death?

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

8. How does Julius describe the beating he suffered at the hands of the two youth?

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

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