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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 3?
(a) People are so Kind.
(b) A Penny From Heaven.
(c) A Mahout to Guide Her.
(d) So Light, So Soft to the Touch.

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

3. What color eyes does the netsuke hair have?
(a) Green.
(b) Purple.
(c) Gold.
(d) Amber.

4. Where in Vienna was Viktor"s mansion located?
(a) Lubeckerstrasse.
(b) Zionstrasse.
(c) Goethestrasse.
(d) Ringstrasse.

5. What was the only place in the world that had a bigger population of Jews than Vienna?
(a) New York.
(b) Odessa.
(c) St. Petersburgh.
(d) Israel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose work did Renoir call Jew Art?

2. What were the golden serving dishes shaped like?

3. What can Charles not get rid of while in Parisian society?

4. What country did Charles decide to travel to shortly after arriving in Paris?

5. In which city does Edmund live?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Charles start collecting?

2. Why does Edmund think he has fallen for Charles?

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

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

5. What were Herr Wessel's teaching methods?

6. How did Charles help Laforgue?

7. How did the Dreyfus affair change Charles' attitude towards life?

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

9. What was expected of Viktor and his friends?

10. What was Sichel's view of Japan?

(see the answer keys)

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