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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 did Marco Polo call cowrie beads?

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

3. In what city does Utz meet Dr. Frankfurter?

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

5. What language does Utz mumble loud enough for the blonde woman to hear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Utz remember about Marta?

2. Why is Marta devoted to Utz?

3. Describe Utz's bathrobe.

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

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

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

7. What does Utz conclude about luxury?

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

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

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

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

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 3

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?

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