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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 do the customs men take from Utz?
2. What language does Utz mumble loud enough for the blonde woman to hear?
3. What does the narrator feel in the young people they pass?
4. Where is Dr. Frankfurter's porcelain made?
5. What does Utz's robe have on its shoulder?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator see in Utz's bedroom?
2. What does Utz like about the soprano he sees at a show?
3. Why did Utz decide to leave Czechoslovakia?
4. Why does the woman on the train disgust Utz?
5. What does Utz remember about Marta?
6. Describe the porcelain figure Dr. Franfurter sells Utz.
7. Why does Marta bang pots together?
8. Why does Utz want to go back to Prague?
9. What did Utz fantacize would happen on his trip?
10. How did the German's use Bottger's porcelain during the 1923 inflation?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss how Communism affected one of the following areas in Utz's life.
1. Work.
2. Social life.
3. Intimate relationships.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Discuss the values of the 1980s.
1. In what ways are the characters a product of their time?
2. How does the play express the changes Czechoslovakia was going through at the time?
3. Does modern society share any values with 1980s Czechoslovakia?
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