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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Julius say he is struck by, in Farouq’s goals?
2. How does Julius say his father’s people reacted to Julius’ father’s death?
3. What is Julius treating V. for?
4. What does Julius think about doing in the boat basin behind the World Financial Center?
5. What does Julius say his study at the hospital shows a correlation between?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Julius react to the waitress who brings him his coffee in the café in Grand Sablon?
2. What does Julius say his work requires of him, and what does he say he enjoys about it?
3. What does Julius say his relationship with his mother is like?
4. How does Julius describe his encounter with the Czechoslovakian tourist he meets in the café?
5. What stereotype does Dr. Maillotte, the woman who sits next to Julius on the plane to Brussels, hold about Nigerians, and how does Julius respond to her cast-typing?
6. How does Julius say he ended up at the Nigerian Military School, when his father was not a soldier?
7. What kind of trip does Julius make to Brussels?
8. What do we know about Julius’ relationships, in this first chapter?
9. Who does Julius imagine he sees, as he enters Brussels?
10. At the book's beginning, why does the narrator says that he goes for long walks?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When is Open City most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
Essay Topic 2
Is this a novel with a moral center and a single cluster of fixations buried in a welter of urban impressions? Or is it a scattered inventory of experiences that never really define a central set of concerns in the author’s life? Is this a book about a man’s psychology, or a book about a man’s views of New York City?
Essay Topic 3
Teju Cole’s novel Open City was published in 2011. How does it apply to today’s political and artistic world? What parts feel dated? What parts feel contemporary? What current cultural discussions can Open City contribute to? What does the novel say, in those conversations?
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