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

2. Who does Utz think about alone in his apartment?
(a) Helena.
(b) Jana.
(c) Orlik.
(d) Marta.

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

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

5. What was Bottger's grandfather's occupation?
(a) Blacksmith.
(b) Cobbler.
(c) Silversmith.
(d) Goldsmith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has promised to make the narrator rich if he find Utz's porcelain collection?

2. Who is Utz's hero?

3. What famous event is almost a year away?

4. What famous explorer is referred to in this section?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Utz like about the soprano he sees at a show?

7. Why did the makers call the white porcelain porcelain?

8. How did Utz get a visa to leave Czechoslovakia?

9. Why did Marco Polo call Cowrie beads porcelain shells?

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

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