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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Japanese call the make-up clad girls who used to go with American soldiers?
(a) Pan Pan girls.
(b) Wild Things.
(c) Lo Lo girls.
(d) Go Go girls.

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

3. What does the author call a tonic at the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) Elisabeth's memoirs.
(b) Viktor's paintings.
(c) Emmy's poetry.
(d) The netsuke.

4. Who is Elisabeth named after?
(a) A psychologist.
(b) An empress.
(c) A queen.
(d) A writer.

5. Where did a young Jew shoot Ernst von Rath?
(a) The Ring Strasse.
(b) The German Parliament.
(c) The German Embassy in Paris.
(d) The German Embassy in London.

6. What did Iggy visit for the first time in October 1947?
(a) The house in Tunbridge Wells.
(b) His mother's grave.
(c) His father's grave.
(d) His grandchildren.

7. What did Jiro's grandfather make his fortune from?
(a) Brita.
(b) Geta.
(c) Paintings.
(d) Netsuke.

8. What did Tomokazu excel in making?
(a) Book covers.
(b) Netsuke animal figures.
(c) Clay pots.
(d) Origami figures.

9. Who is Emmy dressed as in the picture in Chapter 17 taken in 1900?
(a) Marie Antoinette.
(b) Esther Freud.
(c) Judith Danae.
(d) Anne Boelyn

10. What was printed on the dial of the English Radio?
(a) The names of German novels.
(b) The names of English singers.
(c) The names of capital cities.
(d) The names of countries.

11. Which two foreign languages can Emmy speak?
(a) Hungarian and Russian.
(b) French and English.
(c) Chinese and Japanese.
(d) Dutch and Ukraine.

12. Who is talking to Emmy in the picture in Chapter 17 taken in 1906?
(a) The Empress.
(b) The Archduke.
(c) Viktor.
(d) Charles.

13. What is Pips doing on the pen and ink card?
(a) Playing the piano.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Bowing to the ladies.
(d) Writing his memoirs.

14. What is the title of Chapter 16?
(a) Family in Trouble.
(b) Kristall Nacht.
(c) Belly Up.
(d) Liberty Hall.

15. Who does Elisabeth write a letter to in Chapter 20?
(a) The Archduke.
(b) Rimbaud.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject at school does the author say Iggy is not good at?

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

3. Which country do the Ephrussi go to for their long month away?

4. What city does Iggy go to from Paris?

5. Who had bombed Tokyo for three years?

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