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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Utz's servant?

2. Who offers the narrator and Utz snacks?

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

4. What is the address of Kasper Joachim's apartment?

5. What does Marta drink at breakfast?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How could a rabbi destroy a golem?

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

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

6. Why has the narrator come to Prague?

7. Describe Utz's apartment.

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

9. How does Utz help people during the war?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the books reception in three different countries including the country the book was written. How do their opinions about the books differ? Was the book more influential in one country than another? If so, why?

Essay Topic 2

Examine communism and capitalism. Why did communism and capitalism become the two main political systems after WWII? What are the differences between the two systems of thought? Why do you think Communism failed?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the values of the 1980s.

1. In what ways are the characters a product of their time?

2. How does the play express the changes Czechoslovakia was going through at the time?

3. Does modern society share any values with 1980s Czechoslovakia?

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