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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 does the mood in Prague seem in comparison to the Soviet Union?

2. Whose body did the Christian equate gold to?

3. What Asian country had a huge impact on European imagination?

4. What did Marco Polo think cowrie beads looked like?

5. What town would Utz stop at on the way back from Prague?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Utz conclude about luxury?

6. Describe Utz's bathrobe.

7. Why did Utz decide to leave Czechoslovakia?

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

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

10. Why is Marta devoted to Utz?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Examine life under Communist rule.

1. What is Communism?

2. What influence had on world politics? Are their communist elements in American society?

3. How had Communism life shaped Utz? Why was he unable to leave the his country's Communist regime?

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