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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 is Julius’ status in the hospital?
2. What did Saidu have to invent, in order to get a passport?
3. What happens after Julius breaks his mother’s rule in Chapter 10?
4. How does Julius say his father’s people reacted to Julius’ father’s death?
5. What does Julius say he associated classical music with?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Julius react to the waitress who brings him his coffee in the café in Grand Sablon?
2. Who does Julius imagine he sees, as he enters Brussels?
3. What kind of trip does Julius make to Brussels?
4. What kind of person does Julius show himself to be in the taxi he gets home from American Folk Art Museum?
5. What is the feeling Julius wakes up from his dream with, in the beginning of Chapter 10, in his first days in Brussels?
6. What made the detained immigrant Saidu leave Liberia?
7. What does Nadège’s limp make Julius think about, and what does it make him see about Nadège?
8. What does Julius contemplate doing when he thinks about his patient, M., at the boat basin behind the World Financial Center?
9. What is Julius’ relationship with his oma like?
10. What political controversy is playing out when Julius arrives in Brussels?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate your own reading of Open City—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
Essay Topic 2
Write an evaluative review of Open City. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful? What are its uses? What are its limitations?
Essay Topic 3
The character of Julius spends a great deal of time “reading” the external world of the city, telling what stories he knows about neighborhoods and historical figures and events—but what strategies does Julius use, for finding the internal experience of people, and getting to know the deeper life of individuals? What role does loneliness play, in Julius’ world? How much space does he have for other people? Does he welcome them in, or keep them out? What clues does Teju Cole give us about the character’s psychology on this question?
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