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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Julius say fatigues him about boarding the plane?
(a) Remaining patient after numerous delays.
(b) Holding his tongue while he is interrogated by the FBI.
(c) Containing his heartbreak over a scared child.
(d) Controlling his anger at boarding agents.

2. What is V.’s book about?
(a) The expansion of trade routes in colonial New York.
(b) The financing of slave ships.
(c) The murder of Native Americans in New York.
(d) The invention of machinery.

3. What does Julius notice about people’s clothing, as he takes the subway around the city?
(a) That it reflects numerous cultures.
(b) That it is mostly dark colors.
(c) That it expresses people’s individualism.
(d) That it is extremely variable.

4. What is Nadège’s relationship with Julius?
(a) Friend.
(b) Co-worker.
(c) Ex-girlfriend.
(d) Girlfriend.

5. Whose music does Julius hear that causes him to stop shopping and sit and listen in the Tower Records?
(a) Brahms.
(b) Schumann.
(c) Mahler.
(d) Vivaldi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julius say he was sent to the Nigerian Military School to get?

2. What is the second of Farouq’s two projects?

3. What is it that Farouq spends a good deal of time and thought trying to protect, intellectually?

4. What is the wound that Julius says Farouq carries?

5. What does Julius not end up having to tell the woman he has sex with in Brussels?

(see the answer key)

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