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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. What city would Utz go to during mushroom season?

2. What does Utz say people once believed Crystals turned into?

3. What does Utz find disgusting about the woman's legs?

4. What does Utz believe alchemy was?

5. Who did Utz rescue Marta from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Utz conclude about luxury?

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

3. What does Utz remember about the mushroom season?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

Choose two of the following people and outline their influence on Utz's life.

1. Marta.

2. His grandmother.

3. Orlik.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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