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

2. Who was appointed the German Chancellor in 1933?
(a) Heller.
(b) Schiller.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Bismarck.

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

4. Who occupied Japan after the Second World War?
(a) USA.
(b) USSR.
(c) West Germany.
(d) Britain.

5. What does Rilke celebrate in his poem Funf Gesange?
(a) Gods of War.
(b) Winning.
(c) The Angels of Death.
(d) Looting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country did Thomas travel to Odessa from by taxi?

2. Where did Thomas and travel to last time they traveled together?

3. Who wrote the novel, "The Radetzky March"?

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

5. In which city did Henrik de Waal grow up?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the First World War start?

2. Describe the family apartment when Elisabeth visits after the second world war.

3. How did Anna save the netsuke?

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

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

6. Why are Joseph Roth's novels so interesting to Edmund?

7. Describe Hendrik de Waal.

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

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

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

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