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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 does Utz believe alchemy was?

2. What does the narrator feel in the young people they pass?

3. What meat does Marta serve Utz and the narrator?

4. What does Utz admit to storing in a vault at a Swiss bank?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why is Marta devoted to Utz?

8. What does Utz remember about the mushroom season?

9. Describe Utz's bathrobe.

10. Why does Utz dislike Vichy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

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?

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