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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 think cowrie beads looked like?

2. What does Utz believe porcelain is the antidote to?

3. What does Utz think his food lacks?

4. Whose body did the Christian equate gold to?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Utz decide to leave Czechoslovakia?

2. What does Utz conclude about luxury?

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

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

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

6. What does Utz remember about the mushroom season?

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

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

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

10. What does Utz remember about Marta?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the arguments for and against Communism? What is Chatwin opinion on Communism and how does he express them? Do you agree or disagree with Chatwin's opinion?

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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