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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the poet want to talk about, instead of reading poetry, when Julius goes to the 92nd Street Y?
2. How does Julius say he sees the other people who are around when he is in the atrium above the Wall Street subway station?
3. What does Julius not end up having to tell the woman he has sex with in Brussels?
4. What does Dr. Maillotte, Julius’ seat partner, envy about Julius?
5. What was Julius’ friend Dr. Saito’s field of study?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Julius say his work requires of him, and what does he say he enjoys about it?
2. What does Julius say his relationship with his mother is like?
3. What does Nadège’s limp make Julius think about, and what does it make him see about Nadège?
4. What stereotype does Dr. Maillotte, the woman who sits next to Julius on the plane to Brussels, hold about Nigerians, and how does Julius respond to her cast-typing?
5. What made the detained immigrant Saidu leave Liberia?
6. What is Julius’ relationship with his oma like?
7. What political controversy is playing out when Julius arrives in Brussels?
8. What does Julius contemplate doing when he thinks about his patient, M., at the boat basin behind the World Financial Center?
9. What kind of person does Julius show himself to be in the taxi he gets home from American Folk Art Museum?
10. Who is V. and what is her relationship with Julius?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is the audience for Open City? What is the ideal reader for Open City likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
Essay Topic 2
Evaluate the ending of Open City. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?
Essay Topic 3
Is this a novel with a moral center and a single cluster of fixations buried in a welter of urban impressions? Or is it a scattered inventory of experiences that never really define a central set of concerns in the author’s life? Is this a book about a man’s psychology, or a book about a man’s views of New York City?
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