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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’ relationship to Moji Kasali?
2. When Julius goes to the club Le Panais, where does Julius say he thought all the Africans in Brussels were from?
3. Why does Julius say he avoided visiting Dr. Saito again while he was dying?
4. What does Julius say his memory of his father’s burial has merged with?
5. In Chapter 15, where does Dr. Saito tell Julius he is ready to go?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Julius’ relationship like with the character he never names, but simply calls “my friend” (179)?
2. What does the monument to the negro burial ground make Julius think about the reality of people in the past?
3. What happens to Julius when he forgets to bring his checkbook to the accountant, and why is it disturbing?
4. What is the leap in time and setting that has taken place between chapters 20 and 21?
5. How does Julius characterize his stance on global warming, during the picnic in Central Park, and what does he say his stance indicates about himself?
6. How does the model of New York from the 1964 World’s Fair serve as a metaphor for the book?
7. How does Julius characterize his trip to the tailor to get clothing for his father’s funeral?
8. What are Julius’ dreams like, after he hears about Dr. Saito’s bedbugs?
9. How does Julius describe the beating he suffered at the hands of the two youth?
10. How does Julius say that he reacted when he saved the boy’s life who had been about to drown?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is the audience for Open City? What is the ideal reader for Open City likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
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
How are women represented in Open City? What roles do they play, and how does Julius and other men in the novel treat them? What does Julius’ and others’ treatment of women tell us about Teju Cole’s values as an author or about the fictional universe he has created?
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