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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator think Utz may have hidden in his dressing table?
(a) Gold coins.
(b) A wig.
(c) A gun.
(d) Diamonds.

2. What does porcella mean in Italian?
(a) Big man.
(b) Fat pig.
(c) Little sow.
(d) Porcelain.

3. What famous event is almost a year away?
(a) Prague Spring.
(b) The Velvet Revolution.
(c) The Witches' Hour.
(d) The Hungarian Uprising.

4. Where is Dr. Frankfurter's porcelain made?
(a) CapodiMonte.
(b) Vichy.
(c) Meissen.
(d) New York.

5. Who opened the first Porcelain factory in 1710?
(a) Adolf Schultz.
(b) Augustus the Strong.
(c) Jackson Dennis.
(d) Louis Fatwa.

6. What does the blond woman throw out of the window?
(a) A lunch box.
(b) A chicken leg.
(c) A sandwich.
(d) A snail.

7. What used to be used as currency in Africa and Asia?
(a) Perspex.
(b) Porcelain.
(c) Cowrie beads.
(d) Iron pieces.

8. What did Marco Polo call cowrie beads?
(a) Pork ears.
(b) Porcelain buttons.
(c) Pigs' backs.
(d) Porcelain shells.

9. What city does Utz meet the man from his bank?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Geneva.
(c) Paris.
(d) Zurich.

10. Who is Utz's hero?
(a) King Wencelas.
(b) King Louis III.
(c) Augustus the Strong.
(d) Cleopatra.

11. What meat does Marta serve Utz and the narrator?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Pork.
(c) Beef.
(d) Duck.

12. What does Utz think the French have lost?
(a) Their morals.
(b) Their power.
(c) Their taste.
(d) Their energy.

13. Where does Utz go at the end of the chapter?
(a) A brothel.
(b) A cabaret.
(c) A bath house.
(d) Library.

14. Where do the narrator and Utz walk to?
(a) Namesti Miru.
(b) Wencelas Square.
(c) Mala Strana.
(d) Old Town Square.

15. What is the figure of Pulchinella being fed by a young boy?
(a) Rice.
(b) Noodles.
(c) Spaghetti.
(d) Soup.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Utz's New York dealer?

2. How does Utz say the free world presented itself to him?

3. What Asian country had a huge impact on European imagination?

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

5. What did the Chinese teach that god was the body of?

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