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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of weather does Julius escape when he goes into the American Folk Art Museum?
(a) Blinding sunshine.
(b) Torrential rain.
(c) Hail and thunder.
(d) Driving snow.

2. What is it that Farouq spends a good deal of time and thought trying to protect, intellectually?
(a) The concept of cultural difference.
(b) The possibility of cultural unification.
(c) The promise of cultural assimilation.
(d) The hope of becoming a local, again.

3. When Julius goes to the Munkasci exhibit at the Center of Photography, he thinks of the photographic concept of the “decisive moment” (152). Which photographer coined this term, and philosophy?
(a) Munkasci.
(b) Stieglitz.
(c) Cartier-Bresson.
(d) Capa.

4. What is the title Teju Cole gives to Part 2 of Open City, beginning with Chapter 12?
(a) I have searched myself.
(b) Mother, where are you?
(c) Alone in the fog.
(d) The world still exists.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Maillotte tell Julius she thinks about Ghanaians?

2. Why would Julius have thought that the Africans in Brussels all came from this one place in Chapter 11?

3. What does the Wall Street subway station remind Julius of?

4. How does Julius characterize Saidu’s narrative?

5. How old is the Czechoslovakian tourist Julius has a one-night encounter with?

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