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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. Who is Utz's hero?

2. How do Utz and Marta counter any microphones that may have been planted in the house?

3. What city does Utz say he sleeps soundly in?

4. What does Utz suggest he and the narrator do?

5. What is the name of the one exhibition open at the Rudolfine Museum?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Marta devoted to Utz?

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. Describe Utz's bathrobe.

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

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

9. What does Utz remember about the mushroom season?

10. What does Utz remember about Marta?

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

Examine the books reception in three different countries including the country the book was written. How do their opinions about the books differ? Was the book more influential in one country than another? If so, why?

Essay Topic 3

What problems do Utz's generation face? How are the problems for Utz's generation different to the problems his father's generation face? Identify and discuss a significant problem facing your generation.

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