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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Julius, Farouq and Farouq’s friend Khalil agree on, in terms of the portrayal of blacks in America and Muslims in Europe?
(a) That the people are responsible for how they are portrayed.
(b) That one or two men determine how the whole society sees them.
(c) That the people with power control the portrayal.
(d) That the portrayal is created in advance by the unconscious of the race.

3. What is Julius treating V. for?
(a) Depression.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Multiple personality disorder.

4. What does Julius say he is struck by, in Farouq’s goals?
(a) His delusion.
(b) His zealousness.
(c) His single-mindedness.
(d) His purity.

5. What recent event has created controversy in Brussels, when Julius arrives there?
(a) A Muslim girl has been hit by a white man’s car.
(b) A 17-year-old boy had been murdered.
(c) An old man had been robbed.
(d) A Muslim girl had been attacked.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age was Julius sent to boarding school?

2. What is Nadège’s relationship with Julius?

3. How does Julius say he sees the other people who are around when he is in the atrium above the Wall Street subway station?

4. What effect does Julius say his curtness has on the waitress who brings him coffee in Grand Sablon?

5. What issue is remarkably absent from Julius, Farouq and Khalil’s discussion of Middle East politics?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Julius describe his encounter with the Czechoslovakian tourist he meets in the café?

2. What is Julius’ relationship with his oma like?

3. What kind of trip does Julius make to Brussels?

4. How does Julius say he ended up at the Nigerian Military School, when his father was not a soldier?

5. What does Julius say his work requires of him, and what does he say he enjoys about it?

6. What does Nadège’s limp make Julius think about, and what does it make him see about Nadège?

7. Who does Julius imagine he sees, as he enters Brussels?

8. What do we know about Julius’ relationships, in this first chapter?

9. What is the style of the opening pages of Open City, and what kind of expectation do they set up in the reader?

10. What theme emerges in the clothing Julius notices on the people all around him in his wanderings through the city at the beginning of Chapter 4?

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