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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 Julius say the Statue of Liberty served as until 1902?
2. What does Julius say he is awed by, after forgetting his ATM card PIN?
3. On one hand, Julius says that his memory of Nigeria is mostly a blank forgetting—how does he describe the things that do stick with him from that time?
4. What do Julius’ thoughts about the Africans he had seen in Le Panais make him think about the cleaning woman in the church?
5. What does Julius say his generation is the first generation not to be familiar with?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Julius respond when his friend’s girlfriend Lise-Anne asks him about the most humorous cases he had seen among the mentally ill?
2. How does Julius describe the beating he suffered at the hands of the two youth?
3. How does Julius say that he reacted when he saved the boy’s life who had been about to drown?
4. What does Julius know about Dr. Saito’s relationship history, and how does he know it?
5. How does Julius respond when Moji tells Julius that she has never forgotten him sexually assaulting her when they were students?
6. How is Julius affected by V.’s death?
7. What does Dr. Saito tell Julius when he visits him in his illness?
8. What is the postcard Julius keeps on the corkboard behind his desk?
9. How is Julius affected by his thoughts about slavery in New York?
10. What does Julius say his relationship with winter is like?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?
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