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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. How is Elisabeth related to the author?
(a) His second cousin.
(b) His mother.
(c) His cousin.
(d) His grandmother.

2. What does the author call a vision of heaven at the end of Chapter 15?
(a) Nine Jewish women parading down Ringstrasse.
(b) Eight white suits hanging on a rail.
(c) A portrait of his family laughing around a fire.
(d) His wife and children walking towards him.

3. What is the title of Chapter 27?
(a) Finding Nothing but Hate.
(b) The Tears of Things.
(c) Feeling Through the Darkness.
(d) The Years of Thinking.

4. Who wrote the novel, "The Radetzky March"?
(a) Joseph Roth.
(b) Beatrice Potter.
(c) Thomas Mann.
(d) Gustav Springer.

5. What did Tomokazu excel in making?
(a) Clay pots.
(b) Origami figures.
(c) Book covers.
(d) Netsuke animal figures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What product are people in Vienna most in need of in the autumn of 1914?

2. What did many Japanese men have to wear after the war?

3. In which city was Viktor born?

4. What newspaper did Viktor read in order to follow news about the war?

5. What is Thomas an expert on?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Vienna change during the war?

3. Why was Iggy happy to settle down in Tokyo?

4. Describe Emmy's relationship with her children.

5. How did Viktor escape Slovakia?

6. What were conditions like in Tokyo in 1947?

7. How did the First World War start?

8. Describe Hendrik de Waal.

9. What does Edmund discover about how Viktor and Emmy lived their lives?

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

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