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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 piece does Utz tell the narrator he smuggled into Czechslovakia?

2. What used to be used as currency in Africa and Asia?

3. What does Utz say people once believed Crystals turned into?

4. What did Marco Polo call cowrie beads?

5. Why does Utz say he had his feet on both sides of the iron curtain?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Utz decide to leave Czechoslovakia?

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

3. Describe Utz's bathrobe.

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

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

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

7. What does Utz remember about the mushroom season?

8. What does Utz remember about Marta?

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

10. How did the German's use Bottger's porcelain during the 1923 inflation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine communism and capitalism. Why did communism and capitalism become the two main political systems after WWII? What are the differences between the two systems of thought? Why do you think Communism failed?

Essay Topic 2

The author wrote Utz in the first person. Why do you think the author chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would change if the author wrote it in the first person?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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