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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. Who opened the first Porcelain factory in 1710?

2. What does Utz say is the same word as porcelain?

3. What is the figure of Pulchinella being fed by a young boy?

4. What was the name of Utz's New York dealer?

5. What does the boy do when the blonde woman touches him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Marta bang pots together?

2. Why does the woman on the train disgust Utz?

3. Why did Marco Polo call Cowrie beads porcelain shells?

4. Why does Utz say he took up alchemical studies?

5. What did Utz fantacize would happen on his trip?

6. Why does Utz want to go back to Prague?

7. How does Utz react when the narrator asks to see his bathroom?

8. Why did Utz decide to leave Czechoslovakia?

9. What does Utz remember about the mushroom season?

10. Why does Utz think porcelain was the Chinese people's material?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of the following people and outline their influence on Utz's life.

1. Marta.

2. His grandmother.

3. Orlik.

Essay Topic 2

What are the arguments for and against Communism? What is Chatwin opinion on Communism and how does he express them? Do you agree or disagree with Chatwin's opinion?

Essay Topic 3

Compare Utz's character to the person he was at the beginning to the person he is at the end.

1. What did Utz hope to achieve at the beginning of the story?

2. What events changes Utz's ideas about life?

3. How has Utz's character changed by the end of the novel?

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