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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Julius describe sex with this tourist whose name he does not know?
(a) Something he was hungry for.
(b) Something she gave him.
(c) Something she tolerated.
(d) Something he needed to do.

2. What does Julius say explains the sense of hermeticism in the paintings of John Brewster?
(a) Brewster’s depression.
(b) Brewster’s deafness.
(c) The artistic standard of the times.
(d) Brewster’s patron’s demands.

3. What is the main impression Julius gives of the dream he has at the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Panic.
(c) Fear.
(d) Belonging.

4. What rule does Julius break, in the memory he recalls in Chapter 10 from having been left at home?
(a) Not to swim without supervision.
(b) Not to go outside till his homework is done.
(c) Not to go to town alone.
(d) Not to drink the soft drinks.

5. What does Dr. Maillotte tell Julius she thinks about Nigerians?
(a) That they are arrogant.
(b) That they are lazy.
(c) That they are genial.
(d) That they are shifty.

6. What issue is remarkably absent from Julius, Farouq and Khalil’s discussion of Middle East politics?
(a) Tyrants.
(b) Civil wars.
(c) Murder of civilians.
(d) Oil.

7. At what age was Julius sent to boarding school?
(a) 9.
(b) 10.
(c) 7.
(d) 14.

8. How old is Julius?
(a) 22.
(b) 32.
(c) 38.
(d) 28.

9. How does Julius describe the expression of the Welcomers when they get to the immigrant detention facility?
(a) Concerned.
(b) Grave.
(c) Patient.
(d) Beatific.

10. When does Julius say he was estranged from his mother?
(a) At 28.
(b) At 17.
(c) At 24.
(d) At 21.

11. What does Julius think about doing in the boat basin behind the World Financial Center?
(a) Traveling to Brussels.
(b) Returning to Nigeria.
(c) Writing to his mother.
(d) Committing suicide.

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

13. What is Julius’ status in the hospital?
(a) Director.
(b) Resident.
(c) Fellow.
(d) Student.

14. What did Saidu have to invent, in order to get a passport?
(a) A nationality.
(b) A name.
(c) A home town.
(d) A birthdate.

15. Julius says that the world seems to fall under Obatala’s influence: what is Obatala responsible for?
(a) Bringing harvests.
(b) The flights of birds.
(c) Creating people.
(d) Changing the seasons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What employment did Saidu find when he arrived in Lisbon?

2. What was Julius’ friend Dr. Saito’s field of study?

3. What does Julius say fatigues him about boarding the plane?

4. How does Julius say his mother saw her mother, Julius’ oma?

5. Whose music does Julius hear that causes him to stop shopping and sit and listen in the Tower Records?

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