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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what special day did Yossel run amok?

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

3. Why does Utz think Germany will lose the war?

4. Where do Orlik and Marta go for breakfast?

5. What organization was the curator of the museum from?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Utz's apartment.

2. Where does the golem legend have its roots?

3. Why does Dr. Orlik study the household fly?

4. How could a rabbi destroy a golem?

5. Who was Rabbi Loew?

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

7. Why did the Nazis preserve the Jewish cemetery?

8. How did Utz's grandmother ignite Utz's interest in Porcelain collecting?

9. How does the narrator describe Utz?

10. How did Utz lose his temper with the secret police?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following and examine their real life equivalent. How did the author adapt it for his novel?

1. The KSC.

2. Prague.

3. Art collecting.

Essay Topic 2

Examine life under Communist rule.

1. What is Communism?

2. What influence had on world politics? Are their communist elements in American society?

3. How had Communism life shaped Utz? Why was he unable to leave the his country's Communist regime?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss elements of the narrative structure: Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion.

Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the novel's themes?

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