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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 city would Utz go to during mushroom season?

2. What does Utz say it is too late for a woman to love him for?

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

4. What does the narrator feel in the young people they pass?

5. What city does Utz meet the man from his bank?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator see in Utz's bedroom?

2. Why did Utz decide to leave Czechoslovakia?

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

4. How did Bottger allow Augustus the strong to open the first commercial porcelain factory in 1710?

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

6. Why does Utz dislike Vichy?

7. Why does Marta bang pots together?

8. Why did people think gold could save one from death?

9. Why is Augustus the Strong one of Utz's heros?

10. What does Utz like about the soprano he sees at a show?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Away from the main character, examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

Essay Topic 2

Pick a character from the novel and discuss their goals and motives. Do they achieve their motive? Do they share similar goals and motives with other characters? Do their goals clash with other characters? How do the characters goals and motives affect their interaction with each other?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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