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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What used to be used as currency in Africa and Asia?
(a) Cowrie beads.
(b) Iron pieces.
(c) Perspex.
(d) Porcelain.

2. What is the figure of Pulchinella being fed by a young boy?
(a) Noodles.
(b) Rice.
(c) Soup.
(d) Spaghetti.

3. What does Utz think the French have lost?
(a) Their power.
(b) Their energy.
(c) Their morals.
(d) Their taste.

4. Who did Utz fantasize he would meet?
(a) A fun-loving American.
(b) A British heiress.
(c) A lonely middle-aged women.
(d) A teenage girl.

5. What would Marta hide the hare or peasant under to get past the police?
(a) Books.
(b) Rice.
(c) Potatos.
(d) Fish.

6. Who opened the first Porcelain factory in 1710?
(a) Augustus the Strong.
(b) Louis Fatwa.
(c) Adolf Schultz.
(d) Jackson Dennis.

7. What does the mood in Prague seem in comparison to the Soviet Union?
(a) Lively.
(b) Fun.
(c) Mournful.
(d) Melancholic.

8. What city does Utz say he sleeps soundly in?
(a) Geneva.
(b) Zurich.
(c) Prague.
(d) Brno.

9. What did the Chinese teach that god was the body of?
(a) The Emperor's wives.
(b) The Gods.
(c) The community.
(d) The Emperor.

10. What does Utz say is one of life's pleasures?
(a) A woman's happiness.
(b) Natural food.
(c) Business trade.
(d) Children's laughter.

11. Whose body did the Christian equate gold to?
(a) Satan.
(b) Mary.
(c) God.
(d) Christ.

12. Who is Utz's hero?
(a) Cleopatra.
(b) King Wencelas.
(c) King Louis III.
(d) Augustus the Strong.

13. How does the narrator find the mood in the Soviet Union?
(a) Serious.
(b) Buoyant.
(c) Light.
(d) Depressed.

14. In what city does Utz meet Dr. Frankfurter?
(a) New York.
(b) Paris.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Vichy.

15. What is the title of the book Marta gave Utz to read on the train?
(a) The Merchant of Venic.
(b) Vanity Fair.
(c) The Trial.
(d) The Magic Mountain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Dr. Frankfurter's porcelain made?

2. What famous explorer is referred to in this section?

3. What does Utz say it is too late for a woman to love him for?

4. What does Utz's robe have on its shoulder?

5. How do Utz and Marta counter any microphones that may have been planted in the house?

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