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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. Who offers the narrator and Utz snacks?
(a) Helena.
(b) Mara.
(c) Marta.
(d) Hana.

2. What was the name of Rabbi Loew's golem?
(a) Benayoun.
(b) Maxi.
(c) Franz.
(d) Yossel.

3. What does emet mean in Hebrew?
(a) Health.
(b) Truth.
(c) Disaster.
(d) Frolics.

4. What part of Prague do Utz and the narrator spend their afternoon strolling through?
(a) Liberec.
(b) Stare Strana.
(c) Mala Strana.
(d) Vaclavske Namesti.

5. What was the easiest way to get an exit visa?
(a) On the grounds of racial hatred.
(b) On the grounds of ill health.
(c) On the grounds of depression.
(d) On the grounds of writer's block.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Utz think Germany will lose the war?

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

3. What does Utz believe should be looted every fifty years?

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

5. Who are the all trout at the restaurant reserved for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Utz's apartment.

2. How does Utz prove he is racially pure?

3. Describe the stuffed bear in the Hotel Bristol.

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does the narrator's friend send him to meet Utz?

10. Who was Rabbi Loew?

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