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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 did Bottger develop in 1708?

2. What meat does Marta serve Utz and the narrator?

3. What city does Utz meet the man from his bank?

4. What does Utz think his food lacks?

5. Who opened the first Porcelain factory in 1710?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Utz remember about Marta?

4. Why does Marta bang pots together?

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

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

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

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

9. What does Utz conclude about luxury?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What problems do Utz's generation face? How are the problems for Utz's generation different to the problems his father's generation face? Identify and discuss a significant problem facing your generation.

Essay Topic 2

Compare Western European and Central and Eastern European culture.

1. What are the differences between the two cultures?

2. In what way have the two cultures influenced each other?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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