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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 Utz think the French have lost?

2. Where does Utz go at the end of the chapter?

3. What does the boy offer Utz to eat?

4. Where is Dr. Frankfurter's porcelain made?

5. What did the Chinese teach that god was the body of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Utz remember about Marta?

2. Why did the makers call the white porcelain porcelain?

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

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

5. How did Utz get a visa to leave Czechoslovakia?

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

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

8. Why did Utz decide to leave Czechoslovakia?

9. Describe Utz's bathrobe.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following and examine their real life equivalent. How did the author adapt it for his novel?

1. The KSC.

2. Prague.

3. Art collecting.

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

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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