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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. Whose body did the Christian equate gold to?

2. What famous event is almost a year away?

3. What does Utz think the French have lost?

4. What city does Utz say he hates?

5. What does Utz say people once believed silver turned into?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Marta devoted to Utz?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why does Marta bang pots together?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 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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