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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 the boy do when the blonde woman touches him?

2. What city does Utz meet the man from his bank?

3. What does Utz say it is too late for a woman to love him for?

4. What does the narrator think Utz may have hidden in his dressing table?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Utz conclude about luxury?

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

5. Why is Marta devoted to Utz?

6. Why does the woman on the train disgust Utz?

7. Describe Utz's bathrobe.

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

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

10. What does Utz remember about the mushroom season?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pick a character from the novel and discuss their goals and motives. Do they achieve their motive? Do they share similar goals and motives with other characters? Do their goals clash with other characters? How do the characters goals and motives affect their interaction with each other?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

In 1992, George Sluizer directed a film version of Utz. How did the filmmakers adapt the themes to fit in with the new environment? How did these changes affect the meaning of the story?

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