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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Saidu from?
(a) Liberia.
(b) Nigeria.
(c) Angola.
(d) Morocco.

2. Where had Julius’ mother been born?
(a) Yorubaland.
(b) London.
(c) Lagos.
(d) Berlin.

3. What is Dr. Maillotte’s connection with Eduoard Empain, who built Heliopolis in Egypt?
(a) She is married to his grandson.
(b) She is descended from him.
(c) She knows his grandson.
(d) Just that she has visited the city.

4. What position is Farouq determined to advocate in his work?
(a) That individuals can be spokespeople for their races.
(b) That all people are individuals.
(c) That people are just the face of their cultures.
(d) That history puts people in the roles it needs them to play.

5. What effect does Julius say his curtness has on the waitress who brings him coffee in Grand Sablon?
(a) Puzzlement.
(b) Indignation.
(c) Anger.
(d) Displeasure.

6. What does Dr. Maillotte, Julius’ seat partner, envy about Julius?
(a) His ability to fall asleep.
(b) His patience.
(c) His appetite.
(d) His short legs.

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

8. On his way home from the cinema, who does Julius have a presentiment about seeing again?
(a) His friend.
(b) His oma.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

9. What does Julius say he associated classical music with?
(a) His patients.
(b) Migrating geese.
(c) Traffic in the city streets.
(d) Clouds over the city.

10. What is the wound that Julius says Farouq carries?
(a) Having been discriminated against.
(b) Having been forced out of his homeland.
(c) Having his dissertation declined.
(d) Having to fund his own way through school.

11. How old is the Czechoslovakian tourist Julius has a one-night encounter with?
(a) 50.
(b) 28.
(c) 40.
(d) 55.

12. 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) Equal parts Flemish, Walloon, French and immigrant.
(d) Half Walloon, half Flemish.

13. How does Julius say his mother saw her mother, Julius’ oma?
(a) As pathetic and a little crazy.
(b) As loving and generous.
(c) As difficult and mean-spirited.
(d) As delusional.

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

15. How does Julius say he sees the other people who are around when he is in the atrium above the Wall Street subway station?
(a) As dangerous animals.
(b) As kindly domesticated animals.
(c) As life-size mannequins.
(d) As robots.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julius notice about people’s clothing, as he takes the subway around the city?

2. What does Julius say was the true source of second-class warrant officer Musibau’s anger at him?

3. What kind of weather does Julius escape when he goes into the American Folk Art Museum?

4. What does the local bishop say in response to the event that has created controversy in Brussels when Julius arrives there?

5. What does Julius ransack his parents house looking for, while his mother is gone, in the childhood he remembers?

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