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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 is the title of Chapter 27?

2. In which city was it arranged for Iggy to begin his studies?

3. What country does Viktor help his cousins get to?

4. What did Tomokazu excel in making?

5. What does Gedanken im Kriege translate to in English?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Emmy's relationship with her children.

2. Why did Iggy like Japan?

3. What were conditions like in Tokyo in 1947?

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

5. What was the children's relationship with the netsuke?

6. Why was Iggy happy to settle down in Tokyo?

7. What does Edmund's father find for Edmund that he thinks will be important to his research?

8. Why did Iggy find it easy to settle down in Tokyo than some other foreigners?

9. Why were the netsuke so important to the children?

10. How did the Japanese company Sony develop?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the city's de Waal's family lived in and examine how anger towards the Jewish population developed. Why were the originally accepted into the city? Why were the eventually ran out of the city?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the Dreyfus affair.

1. What was the Dreyfus affair?

2. How was de Waal affected by the Dreyfus affair?

3. What was Emile Zola's role in the Dreyfus affair?

Essay Topic 3

How different is the Jewish outlet on life from the Christian's outlook on life? What are the main conflicts between the two cultures?

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