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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following phrases were printed in the Japanese-English Conversation Manual?
(a) Thank you, awfully.
(b) Looky here.
(c) Give my love to the queen.
(d) Blimely, where are we?

2. What does the author call a tonic at the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) The netsuke.
(b) Viktor's paintings.
(c) Elisabeth's memoirs.
(d) Emmy's poetry.

3. Who is Emmy dressed as in the picture in Chapter 17 taken in 1900?
(a) Anne Boelyn
(b) Marie Antoinette.
(c) Esther Freud.
(d) Judith Danae.

4. What does Gedanken im Kriege translate to in English?
(a) War needs love.
(b) Thanks be the war.
(c) Thank God for a Crisis.
(d) Austria unite.

5. Why did the Japanese decide to accept the Pan Pan girls?
(a) They had had hard lives.
(b) They were there to keep the other girls innocent.
(c) They were fun.
(d) They brought tourists.

6. Who wrote the novel, "The Radetzky March"?
(a) Gustav Springer.
(b) Joseph Roth.
(c) Beatrice Potter.
(d) Thomas Mann.

7. What is Thomas an expert on?
(a) The conflict in Odessa.
(b) The conflict in Vienna.
(c) The conflict in Berlin.
(d) The conflict in Caucasus.

8. What did the Japanese call the make-up clad girls who used to go with American soldiers?
(a) Go Go girls.
(b) Lo Lo girls.
(c) Pan Pan girls.
(d) Wild Things.

9. What does the author hope the netsuke will open for him?
(a) The key to Viennese intellectual life.
(b) The key to his family secrets.
(c) The key to who he is.
(d) The key to his blocked ideas.

10. What did Tomokazu excel in making?
(a) Clay pots.
(b) Netsuke animal figures.
(c) Origami figures.
(d) Book covers.

11. Who dies on October 12, 1938?
(a) Gisela.
(b) Viktor.
(c) Emmy.
(d) Elisabeth.

12. Who does Elisabeth write a letter to in Chapter 20?
(a) Her father.
(b) The Archduke.
(c) Rimbaud.
(d) Her mother.

13. What country does Viktor receive a visa for on March 1, 1939?
(a) Japan.
(b) USA.
(c) Britain.
(d) China.

14. Which country promises to support Austria against the Serbs?
(a) Germany.
(b) Hungary.
(c) Britain.
(d) France.

15. What did Charles leave Emmy in his will?
(a) A diamond ring.
(b) His book collection.
(c) A Rimbaud painting.
(d) A gold necklace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Iggy learn how to sketch at the third rung fashion house?

2. What is the title of Chapter 34?

3. What is the title of Part 4?

4. What two places does the author say Emmy knows how to live in?

5. What did Iggy visit for the first time in October 1947?

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