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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. Which political group has laid a wreath on Utz's coffin?

2. What German city does Utz's grandmother send him to?

3. What is Vaclav waiting for outside the church?

4. What does Utz's apartment overlook?

5. To where does Utz ship his porcelain?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the golem legend have its roots?

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

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

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

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

6. Why did the Nazis preserve the Jewish cemetery?

7. Describe Utz's apartment.

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

9. How could a rabbi destroy a golem?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What problems do Utz's generation face? How are the problems for Utz's generation different to the problems his father's generation face? Identify and discuss a significant problem facing your generation.

Essay Topic 2

Compare Western European and Central and Eastern European culture.

1. What are the differences between the two cultures?

2. In what way have the two cultures influenced each other?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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