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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. What kind of music does the band play, that marches past the store where Julius stops in Chinatown in Chapter 16?
(a) A jazz classic.
(b) A march.
(c) A fugue.
(d) A dirge.

2. Who wrote the cantatas Julius had heard at Lincoln Center, before coming to visit Dr. Saito?
(a) Stravinsky.
(b) Bach.
(c) Rachmaninov.
(d) Tchaikovsky.

3. Who does Julius feel watched by as he goes to the post office in Chapter 16?
(a) A red-tailed hawk.
(b) A homeless man.
(c) A policeman.
(d) A squirrel.

4. What consolation does Julius try to avoid offering himself, after being beaten up and robbed?
(a) “You’re better than they are.”
(b) “It could be worse.”
(c) “This too shall pass.”
(d) “They don’t know what they’re doing.”

5. How does Julius characterize his feeling while he reads the news to Dr. Saito?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Engagement.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Detachment.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Julius characterize his personality during the picnic in Central Park?

2. When Julius sees a police officer’ with a handgun in his travels, what does he say he envies about the gun?

3. Who is in the shop Julius stop into in Chinatown in Chapter 16?

4. What does Julius notice is missing in Dr. Saito’s apartment in Chapter 14?

5. What is Julius’ reaction when he sees Hasidic Jews looking at Munkasci’s images of Goebbels?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Julius say that he reacted when he saved the boy’s life who had been about to drown?

2. How does Julius respond when Moji tells Julius that she has never forgotten him sexually assaulting her when they were students?

3. What does Julius know about Dr. Saito’s relationship history, and how does he know it?

4. What is the postcard Julius keeps on the corkboard behind his desk?

5. What is it that Julius says cut him to the quick when he was talking with Dr. Maillotte over dinner?

6. How does Julius explain his views about psychiatry to his friend?

7. How does Julius characterize his trip to the tailor to get clothing for his father’s funeral?

8. How is Julius affected by his thoughts about slavery in New York?

9. What happens to Julius when he forgets to bring his checkbook to the accountant, and why is it disturbing?

10. What is Julius’ relationship like with the character he never names, but simply calls “my friend” (179)?

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