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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 is the title of Chapter 17?

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

3. What did Tomokazu excel in making?

4. Who does Elisabeth write a letter to in Chapter 20?

5. What is the title of Chapter 34?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Anna save the netsuke?

2. What signs are there in Chapter 24 that the Nazis are taking over?

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

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

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

6. What problems does Viktor have with the vitrine in Chapter 15?

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

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

9. How did the First World War start?

10. How did the Japanese company Sony develop?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the city's de Waal's family lived in and examine how anger towards the Jewish population developed. Why were the originally accepted into the city? Why were the eventually ran out of the city?

Essay Topic 3

How influential was Jewish culture in Europe at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century? How much did it change European life?

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