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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which postmodern writer’s story about a giant, 1:1 map of New York city does Julius think about having read?
(a) Delillo.
(b) Barthelme.
(c) Borges.
(d) Barthes.

2. Flying back to New York, Julius remembers having seen the city from a similar vantage point: when looking a vast scale model of the city. Where was that scale model exhibited?
(a) 1939 World’s Fair.
(b) 1964 World’s Fair.
(c) The Smithsonian.
(d) The Louvre.

3. What is the first thing Saidu asks Julius when he meets him at the immigrant detention facility?
(a) Whether he is thirsty.
(b) Whether he is Christian.
(c) Whether he is African.
(d) Whether he is tired.

4. What does Mayken, Julius’ short-term landlord for his stay in Brussels, tell him the ethnic composition of Brussels was supposed to be?
(a) All Flemish.
(b) All Walloon.
(c) Half Walloon, half Flemish.
(d) Equal parts Flemish, Walloon, French and immigrant.

5. What is the second of Farouq’s two projects?
(a) To determine what it takes for different people to live together.
(b) To bring his family from home to Brussels.
(c) To invent a set of rituals for decolonization.
(d) To start a prayer and reading society.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Julius’ field of practice?

2. What position is Farouq determined to advocate in his work?

3. Where is Open City set?

4. What does Julius say his experience of his oma’s visit was like, when she came to visit in Nigeria?

5. What is the main impression Julius gives of the dream he has at the beginning of Chapter 10?

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