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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. How does the narrator describe Utz's eyes?
(a) Round.
(b) Slits.
(c) Narrow.
(d) Huge.

2. What is Orlik's specialty since stopping his studies of mammoths?
(a) The wasp.
(b) The dragonfly.
(c) The common housefly.
(d) The bee.

3. How does the narrator describe the main room in Utz's apartment?
(a) Narrow.
(b) Huge.
(c) Tiny.
(d) Boxy.

4. Whose tomb do the Hasids lay stone on?
(a) Jan Hus.
(b) Rabbi Loew.
(c) Tomas Masaryk.
(d) Franz Kafka.

5. What does Marta drink at breakfast?
(a) Grog.
(b) Tokay.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Beer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Rabbi Loew's golem?

2. What does the golems master remove from the golems head when all creatures rest?

3. What does Utz slam on to the desk when someone questions his racial purity?

4. What kind of animal did Orlik study for thirty years?

5. What happen when someone removes the strip of metal from Yossel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the stuffed bear in the Hotel Bristol.

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

3. How does the narrator describe Utz?

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

5. Why has the narrator come to Prague?

6. How did Rabbi Loew use Yossel?

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

8. Why did the Nazis preserve the Jewish cemetery?

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

10. What does Dr. Orlik do every time he sees a fly in the restaurant?

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