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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 state is Dr. Saito’s helper Mary in when Julius goes to visit his friend in Chapter 15?
2. What does the fine weather on the day of the picnic in Central Park make Julius recall?
3. How old was Julius when Moji said he forced himself on her?
4. How does Julius characterize the gait of the two boys who beat him up?
5. Where is John Musson’s apartment, that Julius goes to the party Moji invites him to?
Short Essay Questions
1. What experience does Julius have in Chinatown, that gives him the “disorientation and bliss” of living in his childhood self again?
2. Why has Julius missed Dr. Saito’s death?
3. What was the last time before his fathers funeral that Julius says that he had seen a dead body?
4. What is Julius’ relationship like with the character he never names, but simply calls “my friend” (179)?
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. What does the monument to the negro burial ground make Julius think about the reality of people in the past?
7. How is Julius affected by his thoughts about slavery in New York?
8. What is Julius’ reaction to meeting Moji Kasali?
9. What are Julius’ dreams like, after he hears about Dr. Saito’s bedbugs?
10. What is the leap in time and setting that has taken place between chapters 20 and 21?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The biographical information says that Teju Cole is a “writer, photographer and professional historian of early Netherlandish art” (263). How do these other disciplines affect this novel? What does this book have in common with photography? What kind of photography in particular? What does this book have in common with Dutch art, or the discipline of art history?
Essay Topic 2
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 3
Evaluate the ending of Open City. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?
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