View a FREE sample

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 believe porcelain is the antidote to?

2. Who did Utz rescue Marta from?

3. In which city was the CapodiMonte factory set up?

4. How does the narrator find the mood in the Soviet Union?

5. What did Bottger develop in 1708?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Utz remember about the mushroom season?

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

10. Describe the porcelain figure Dr. Franfurter sells Utz.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss how Communism affected one of the following areas in Utz's life.

1. Work.

2. Social life.

3. Intimate relationships.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss elements of the narrative structure: Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion.

Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the novel's themes?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 644 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample