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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 does the author hope the netsuke will open for him?
(a) The key to his blocked ideas.
(b) The key to who he is.
(c) The key to Viennese intellectual life.
(d) The key to his family secrets.

2. Who occupied Japan after the Second World War?
(a) Britain.
(b) USA.
(c) USSR.
(d) West Germany.

3. What does Richter and Henker translate to in English?
(a) Judges and hangmen.
(b) Fighters and cowards.
(c) Lovers and murderers.
(d) Poets and thinkers.

4. In which city did Henrik de Waal grow up?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) Paris.
(c) Berlin.
(d) London.

5. Who died on November 21, 1916?
(a) Franz Ferdinand.
(b) Vladimir Lenin.
(c) King George II.
(d) Franz Josef.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument does Henrik de Waal play?

2. Which of the author's family dies on September 30, 1905?

3. Which South American country declared war on Austria?

4. What was the name of the hit song in Japan in the summer of 1948?

5. Which country promises to support Austria against the Serbs?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the author think the Japanese are so good with their hands?

2. Why are Joseph Roth's novels so interesting to Edmund?

3. In what way were conditions worsening at the end of Chapter 23?

4. How did Vienna change during the war?

5. How did life in Vienna change after Hitler visited the city?

6. Why did Iggy like Japan?

7. How did the Japanese company Sony develop?

8. How does the author describe Emmy and Viktor's three children?

9. Describe Emmy's relationship with her children.

10. How did the First World War start?

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