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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 is the title of Chapter 4?
(a) So Light, So Soft to the Touch.
(b) A Penny Store.
(c) The Start of The Super Store.
(d) A Penny For Your Thought.

2. What does Edmund compare glass cases in museums to?
(a) Vases.
(b) Coffins.
(c) Show windows.
(d) Mirrors.

3. What kind of background did Wessell say a person should have to understand history better?
(a) A socialist background.
(b) A language background.
(c) A fascist background.
(d) A liberal background.

4. Which of Charles' engravings does Edmund wonder if visitors to his house saw?
(a) The Nuovo Rebeccani.
(b) The uno la.
(c) The English Patient.
(d) The lit de parade

5. In which famous painting is Charles depicted?
(a) Venus in Furs.
(b) Nymheas.
(c) Falling in Love.
(d) Luncheon of he Boating Party.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 5?

2. What was Durer's nationality?

3. What was the name of the party Dr. Karl Lueger founded?

4. What was the only place in the world that had a bigger population of Jews than Vienna?

5. What kind of publication was the gazette?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Charles start collecting?

2. What does Edmund think was strange about Charles' relationship with the Impressionist painters?

3. How did Charles live his life differently from his brothers?

4. Why was Odessa an important city for the Jews?

5. What can de Waal envision as he scans Charles' room?

6. What evidence does de Waal to prove Charles was friends with all the great Paris artists of the late 19th century?

7. Describe the Ringstrasse when it was first built in Vienna.

8. Why does Charles buy a vitrine in Chapter 6?

9. Why did Westerners view Japanese art as so different?

10. How did Charles spend his time in Paris?

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