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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. What is the address of Kasper Joachim's apartment?
(a) 14 Sarkova Street.
(b) 5 Sirroka Street.
(c) 10 Pod Terebkou.
(d) 2 Krymska Street.

2. What does met mean in Hebrew?
(a) Love.
(b) Hate.
(c) Life.
(d) Death.

3. What does the golems master remove from the golems head when all creatures rest?
(a) His teeth.
(b) His tongue.
(c) The strip of metal.
(d) The key.

4. Who is Marta toasting at four pm?
(a) Utz.
(b) The bear.
(c) The Bolsheviks.
(d) Orlik.

5. In what country does Utz say he still had money?
(a) America.
(b) Germany.
(c) Switerland.
(d) Yugoslavia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Utz think Jews make good art collector?

2. What does Marta drink at breakfast?

3. What does Utz's doctor prescribe him?

4. What does the the narrator's friend say artists in Prague will moan about?

5. Who has paid for Orlik and Marta's breakfast at the Hotel Bristow?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dr. Orlik study the household fly?

2. How does Utz help people during the war?

3. How did the communist state divert people's attentions from the Christian rituals of Utz's funeral?

4. Why has the narrator come to Prague?

5. Where does the golem legend have its roots?

6. How did Utz lose his temper with the secret police?

7. What does Utz's funeral suggest about him as a person?

8. How does Utz develop his theory about porcelain collecting?

9. How does the narrator describe Utz?

10. How does Utz say he was able to keep his porcelain collection?

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