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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the boy do when the blonde woman touches him?
(a) Giggles.
(b) Frowns.
(c) Shudders.
(d) Vomits.

4. What does Utz believe alchemy was?
(a) A form of mediatation.
(b) A spiritual cominf.
(c) A mystical exercise.
(d) A religious ceremony.

5. What room does the narrator ask to see?
(a) The dining room.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The bathroom.
(d) The loinge.

6. What season does Utz say provided the happiest times?
(a) Mushroom season.
(b) Potato season.
(c) Sunflower season.
(d) Paprika season.

7. What does porcella mean in Italian?
(a) Porcelain.
(b) Little sow.
(c) Fat pig.
(d) Big man.

8. What does Utz say is the same word as porcelain?
(a) Porch.
(b) Porsche.
(c) Pork.
(d) Poor.

9. What does the narrator feel in the young people they pass?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Optimism.
(c) Depression.
(d) Oppression.

10. What famous event is almost a year away?
(a) Prague Spring.
(b) The Witches' Hour.
(c) The Hungarian Uprising.
(d) The Velvet Revolution.

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

12. What does Utz think his food lacks?
(a) Taste.
(b) Pepper.
(c) Vitality.
(d) Salt.

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

14. What room does Marta withdraw to?
(a) The games room.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The lounge.
(d) The dining room.

15. What does the boy offer Utz to eat?
(a) A tin of olives.
(b) A baguette.
(c) A chicken leg.
(d) A duck breast.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Utz's hero?

2. What does Utz admit to storing in a vault at a Swiss bank?

3. In which city was the CapodiMonte factory set up?

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

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

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