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

2. What is the title of Chapter 17?
(a) Early Hours on a Spring Morning.
(b) The Sweet Young Thing.
(c) Beating at the Doors.
(d) Long into the Night.

3. Which of the author's family dies on September 30, 1905?
(a) Ignace.
(b) Vitor.
(c) Emmy.
(d) Charles.

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

5. What does Gedanken im Kriege translate to in English?
(a) Thanks be the war.
(b) Thank God for a Crisis.
(c) Austria unite.
(d) War needs love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following objects is placed on a tray to play Kim's Game?

2. What does the author hope the netsuke will open for him?

3. Why kind of parties did Iggy find very boring?

4. Who is talking to Emmy in the picture in Chapter 17 taken in 1906?

5. What do the Austrian people boycott on April 23?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Austrian government react to the atrocities of World War Two?

2. Why were the netsuke so important to the children?

3. How did Anna save the netsuke?

4. How is it suggested that the American took advantage of the Japanese during their occupation of the country?

5. How did Elisabeth help her parents flee the country?

6. How did life in Vienna change after Hitler visited the city?

7. What does Edmund's father find for Edmund that he thinks will be important to his research?

8. How did Vienna change during the war?

9. Describe Emmy's relationship with her children.

10. Why does the author think the Japanese are so good with their hands?

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