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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 does Utz spend hours doing in Dresden?
(a) Going to the cinema.
(b) Visiting museums.
(c) Visiting caberets.
(d) Drinking beer.

2. Which political group has laid a wreath on Utz's coffin?
(a) The Bolsheviks.
(b) The Liberals.
(c) The Nazis.
(d) The Nihilists.

3. What does Utz believe should be looted every fifty years?
(a) Train stations.
(b) Museums.
(c) Banks.
(d) Galleries.

4. What covers Utz's coffin?
(a) Carnations.
(b) Roses.
(c) Fox Gloves.
(d) Daisies.

5. What does the narrator say Prague is compared to other European cities?
(a) The ugliest.
(b) The most mysterious.
(c) The most beautiful.
(d) The darkest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does met mean in Hebrew?

2. Which member of the secret police drops a porcelain piece on the floor?

3. What is Orlik's specialty since stopping his studies of mammoths?

4. Where city did Utz rescue the Barcelona chairs from?

5. What stands at the far end of the table in Hotel Bristol?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is there no trout available at the trout restaurant?

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

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

4. How does Utz prove he is racially pure?

5. Who was Rabbi Loew?

6. Why do the Jews think Adam was the first golem?

7. How could a rabbi destroy a golem?

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

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

10. How does Utz help people during the war?

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