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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. Who is Emmy dressed as in the picture in Chapter 17 taken in 1900?
(a) Marie Antoinette.
(b) Anne Boelyn
(c) Judith Danae.
(d) Esther Freud.

2. What did Iggy learn how to sketch at the third rung fashion house?
(a) Beads.
(b) Female models.
(c) Tea gowns.
(d) Pyjamas.

3. Which country do the Ephrussi go to for their long month away?
(a) Britain.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) Germany.
(d) USA.

4. What two places does the author say Emmy knows how to live in?
(a) The town and the city.
(b) Vienna and France.
(c) England and Vienna.
(d) The country and the city.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who had bombed Tokyo for three years?

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

4. In which city was it arranged for Iggy to begin his studies?

5. Why did the Japanese decide to accept the Pan Pan girls?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did Iggy find it easy to settle down in Tokyo than some other foreigners?

4. In what way were conditions worsening at the end of Chapter 23?

5. What were conditions like in Tokyo in 1947?

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

7. Why does Edmund think Emmy had so many lovers over the years?

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

9. Describe Emmy's relationship with her children.

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

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