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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Utz own a spectacular collection of?
(a) Meissen porcelain.
(b) Bone china.
(c) Gold coins.
(d) China dolls.

2. How does the narrator describe Utz's face?
(a) Average.
(b) Kind.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Forgettable.

3. Who is Marta toasting at four pm?
(a) Orlik.
(b) Utz.
(c) The Bolsheviks.
(d) The bear.

4. What color is Utz's carpet?
(a) Pink.
(b) Red.
(c) Orange.
(d) Gray.

5. What has the Director of the Rudolfine Museum placed on Utz's coffin?
(a) A wreath.
(b) A bible.
(c) A rose.
(d) A condolence card.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the river that runs through Prague?

2. What color carnations does Urlik place on Utz's coffin?

3. How does the narrator describe Utz's eyes?

4. What kind of bear is at the end of the table?

5. What German city does Utz's grandmother send him to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dr. Orlik do every time he sees a fly in the restaurant?

2. How does Rabbi Loew stop Yossel from running amok?

3. How does Utz say he was able to keep his porcelain collection?

4. Describe the stuffed bear in the Hotel Bristol.

5. Who was Rabbi Loew?

6. How does Utz help people during the war?

7. Why do the Jews think Adam was the first golem?

8. How does Utz develop his theory about porcelain collecting?

9. What does the narrator observe about Utz's porcelain?

10. How did the communist state divert people's attentions from the Christian rituals of Utz's funeral?

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