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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 meat does Marta serve Utz and the narrator?

2. Who does the narrator say is devoted to Utz?

3. What does Utz believe alchemy was?

4. What does Utz believe porcelain is the antidote to?

5. What room does the narrator ask to see?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Utz remember about the mushroom season?

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

4. What does Utz remember about Marta?

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

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

7. How did Bottger allow Augustus the strong to open the first commercial porcelain factory in 1710?

8. Describe Utz's bathrobe.

9. Why did Utz decide to leave Czechoslovakia?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following and discuss how it affects the tone of the novel and helps to express character and theme.

1. Setting

2. Point of view

3. Structure

4. Language

Essay Topic 2

In 1992, George Sluizer directed a film version of Utz. How did the filmmakers adapt the themes to fit in with the new environment? How did these changes affect the meaning of the story?

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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