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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 Utz say is one of life's pleasures?
(a) Natural food.
(b) A woman's happiness.
(c) Business trade.
(d) Children's laughter.

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

3. Whose body did the Christian equate gold to?
(a) God.
(b) Christ.
(c) Mary.
(d) Satan.

4. What does Utz think his food lacks?
(a) Vitality.
(b) Salt.
(c) Pepper.
(d) Taste.

5. What kind of candlestick does Marta bring into the room?
(a) A Tabor candlestick.
(b) A Dresden candletick.
(c) A Meissen candlestick.
(d) A Commedia dell'Arte candlestick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city does Utz say he sleeps soundly in?

2. What is the figure of Pulchinella being fed by a young boy?

3. What city does Utz meet the man from his bank?

4. Who sends the narrator a card to inform him of Utz's death?

5. What was Bottger's grandfather's occupation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the woman on the train disgust Utz?

2. Why did Utz decide to leave Czechoslovakia?

3. What does Utz remember about the mushroom season?

4. Why is Marta devoted to Utz?

5. What did Utz fantacize would happen on his trip?

6. What does Utz like about the soprano he sees at a show?

7. Why does Utz dislike Vichy?

8. What does Utz conclude about luxury?

9. Why did Marco Polo call Cowrie beads porcelain shells?

10. Why does Marta bang pots together?

(see the answer keys)

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