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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 the the narrator's friend say artists in Prague will moan about?
(a) The Czech youth.
(b) Lack of funds.
(c) The totalitarian state.
(d) The Russians.

2. What does Golem mean in Hebrew?
(a) Unfortunate.
(b) Unloved.
(c) Unformed.
(d) Unbroken.

3. What does Pstruh mean in English?
(a) Bread.
(b) Words.
(c) Carp.
(d) Trout.

4. What city are the chairs in Utz's room from?
(a) Paris.
(b) Madrid.
(c) London.
(d) Barcelona.

5. Where did Utz's grandmother live?
(a) Ceske Krumlov.
(b) Brno.
(c) Ceske Krizove.
(d) Dresden.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Utz want to use the money he has in Switzerland?

3. On what special day did Yossel run amok?

4. Where does Utz meet the narrator?

5. What does Utz spend hours doing in Dresden?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did the Nazis preserve the Jewish cemetery?

3. Where does the golem legend have its roots?

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

5. How does Utz prove he is racially pure?

6. Who was Rabbi Loew?

7. How could a rabbi destroy a golem?

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

9. How does Utz help people during the war?

10. How does the narrator describe Utz?

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