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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 hospital does Julius work at?
2. Whose music does Julius hear that causes him to stop shopping and sit and listen in the Tower Records?
3. What is the “halo” Julius sees around Dr. Saito’s head comprised of (11)?
4. How does Julius describe sex with this tourist whose name he does not know?
5. How much does Julius say he carries around his patients’ experiences and stories?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the feeling Julius wakes up from his dream with, in the beginning of Chapter 10, in his first days in Brussels?
2. What is the style of the opening pages of Open City, and what kind of expectation do they set up in the reader?
3. What made the detained immigrant Saidu leave Liberia?
4. How does the incident in which Musibau accused Julius of stealing his paper ultimately work in Julius’ favor?
5. 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?
6. How does Julius explain his split with Nadège?
7. What is it about Coca-Cola that the younger Julius found so appealing?
8. What kind of trip does Julius make to Brussels?
9. Who is V. and what is her relationship with Julius?
10. What political controversy is playing out when Julius arrives in Brussels?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the style Cole uses for this novel? What does Cole gain by Julius’ impressions being so egalitarian? What does he lose by constantly changing focus, from one scene to the next, without building the kinds of personal drama we expect in a novel? How is this style fitted to the themes of Julius’ interests? Does it ultimately weigh in the book’s favor, or is its style an obstacle to the book’s meaning?
Essay Topic 2
The biographical information says that Teju Cole is a “writer, photographer and professional historian of early Netherlandish art” (263). How do these other disciplines affect this novel? What does this book have in common with photography? What kind of photography in particular? What does this book have in common with Dutch art, or the discipline of art history?
Essay Topic 3
How does Julius grow or change over the course of the novel? What is he like at the start of the novel, and what is he like at the end? What are the main events that may have changed him? How do you account for the changes he undergoes? Or, how do you account for his lack of change?
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