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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 say people once believed Crystals turned into?
(a) Rubies.
(b) Diamonds.
(c) Snails.
(d) Babies.

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

3. Who did Utz rescue Marta from?
(a) A KGB officer.
(b) A prison guard.
(c) A mob.
(d) An American officer.

4. What does Utz say is the same word as porcelain?
(a) Porsche.
(b) Porch.
(c) Pork.
(d) Poor.

5. What does the man from Utz's bank hand to Utz?
(a) A check.
(b) A bag full of money.
(c) An envelope full of money.
(d) A postal order.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Utz think the French have lost?

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

3. What does porcella mean in Italian?

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

5. What is the name of the one exhibition open at the Rudolfine Museum?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Utz remember about the mushroom season?

2. Why does Utz want to go back to Prague?

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

4. Why did people think gold could save one from death?

5. Why is Augustus the Strong one of Utz's heros?

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

7. Why does Utz say he took up alchemical studies?

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

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

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

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