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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. Why does Utz think Jews make good art collector?
(a) They could alway do it undisturbed.
(b) It made them popular.
(c) They know the value of life.
(d) It is forbidden to them.

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

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

4. What stands at the far end of the table in Hotel Bristol?
(a) A stuffed horse.
(b) A stuffed bird.
(c) A stuffed bear.
(d) A stuffed wolf.

5. Where does Orlik suggest he and Utz flee to?
(a) Israel.
(b) Asia.
(c) The west.
(d) South America.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose tomb do the Hasids lay stone on?

2. In what country does Utz say he still had money?

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

4. What color is Utz's carpet?

5. What does the narrator say is always possible in Prague?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rabbi Loew stop Yossel from running amok?

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

3. How did Rabbi Loew use Yossel?

4. Describe the stuffed bear in the Hotel Bristol.

5. What does the narrator observe about Utz's porcelain?

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

7. How does Utz prove he is racially pure?

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

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

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

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