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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author call an art?

2. What illness did Jules die from?

3. What was Charles' nickname?

4. Which of the following painters did Charles correspond with?

5. Who does the Princess regard to be her Mahout?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Edmund think was strange about Charles' relationship with the Impressionist painters?

3. Describe Edmund's relative Ignace von Ephrussi.

4. How did the Dreyfus affair effect Jewish people?

5. What was expected of Viktor and his friends?

6. What passion did Charles and his love share?

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

8. What problems were Charles and his relative having at the end of Chapter 20?

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

10. What can de Waal envision as he scans Charles' room?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How was Hitler able to turn the public against the Jews and other minorities in Germany? What was the environment in Germany that allowed him to create such hatred towards the minorities? What has western Europe done to ensure this won't happen again?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the author's writing style. How would you describe the author's prose style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? What meaning does the author's style give to the story?

Essay Topic 3

What has Western Europe done to stop anti-Semitism since World War Two? Have they been successful?

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