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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What used to be used as currency in Africa and Asia?
(a) Perspex.
(b) Porcelain.
(c) Cowrie beads.
(d) Iron pieces.

2. Where does Utz go at the end of the chapter?
(a) A bath house.
(b) Library.
(c) A cabaret.
(d) A brothel.

3. What famous event is almost a year away?
(a) Prague Spring.
(b) The Velvet Revolution.
(c) The Hungarian Uprising.
(d) The Witches' Hour.

4. What do the customs men take from Utz?
(a) His sweater.
(b) His phone.
(c) His wallet.
(d) His small change.

5. What did Augustus the Strong's granddaughter found?
(a) Poland.
(b) The CapodiMonte factoy.
(c) Czecholovakia.
(d) The Vichy factory.

6. What does the boy do when the blonde woman touches him?
(a) Shudders.
(b) Giggles.
(c) Vomits.
(d) Frowns.

7. Who sends the narrator a card to inform him of Utz's death?
(a) Marta.
(b) Jan.
(c) Vaclav.
(d) Orlik.

8. Why does Utz say he had his feet on both sides of the iron curtain?
(a) He had family in West.
(b) He had a government job.
(c) He had investments in the West.
(d) He was a pilot.

9. What meat does Marta serve Utz and the narrator?
(a) Beef.
(b) Pork.
(c) Chicken.
(d) Duck.

10. What does Utz say it is too late for a woman to love him for?
(a) His money.
(b) His morals.
(c) His looks.
(d) His taste.

11. What does Utz say is the same word as porcelain?
(a) Poor.
(b) Pork.
(c) Porsche.
(d) Porch.

12. What town would Utz stop at on the way back from Prague?
(a) Pilzen.
(b) Liberec.
(c) Brno.
(d) Tabor.

13. Who did Utz rescue Marta from?
(a) A KGB officer.
(b) A prison guard.
(c) An American officer.
(d) A mob.

14. Who does the narrator say is devoted to Utz?
(a) Mara.
(b) Louis.
(c) Orlik.
(d) Marta.

15. Where is Dr. Frankfurter's porcelain made?
(a) New York.
(b) CapodiMonte.
(c) Meissen.
(d) Vichy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Utz's bedside lampshade made from?

2. What did Marco Polo call cowrie beads?

3. What Asian country had a huge impact on European imagination?

4. Whose body did the Christian equate gold to?

5. What room does Marta withdraw to?

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