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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 For Your Thought.
(c) The Start of The Super Store.
(d) A Penny Store.

2. What did Viktor and his wife, Emmy, inherit?
(a) Ringstrass.
(b) The Rothschild mansion.
(c) The netsukes.
(d) The Ephrussi Bank.

3. What was the name of the Monet painting Charles convinced his friend to buy?
(a) Roses.
(b) Venus in Furs.
(c) Nympheas.
(d) Gazelle.

4. What is the title of Chapter 5?
(a) A Box of Children's Sweets.
(b) Examining the Japnese.
(c) Eureka.
(d) Thoughful Ponderings.

5. What does the staircase in the medical insurance office curl up like?
(a) A coil of smoke.
(b) A sleeping python.
(c) A winner's ribbon.
(d) A trail of saliva.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rumors are going around about Charles at the end of Chapter 9?

2. What country does the author say was like a box of sweets?

3. Who ordered the Ring to be be built?

4. Why was Freud once called a dirty Jew on a train?

5. Who does the author think Charles may have bought the netsukes to please?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was expected of Viktor and his friends?

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

3. What passion did Charles and his love share?

4. Why was Japan a box of sweets for foreigners in the 1880s?

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

6. Describe Edmund's relative Ignace von Ephrussi.

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

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

9. How does Edmund describe his family's palais?

10. What was Sichel's view of Japan?

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