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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 color is Utz's carpet?

2. What was the easiest way to get an exit visa?

3. What religion did Utz's grandmother convert to?

4. What does the bear symbolize?

5. What covers Utz's coffin?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Utz help people during the war?

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

3. Describe Utz's apartment.

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

5. How does Utz prove he is racially pure?

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

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

8. How did Utz's grandmother ignite Utz's interest in Porcelain collecting?

9. Who was Rabbi Loew?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the author's writing style. How would you describe the author's prose style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? What meaning does the author's style give to the story?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Communism affected one of the following areas in Utz's life.

1. Work.

2. Social life.

3. Intimate relationships.

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