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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” that “the hierarchy and upper echelons of the court were” what?
(a) Endless
(b) Justifiable
(c) Insurmountable
(d) Enviable

2. Herr Block tells K. after the maid’s disappearance that she’s probably in the kitchen making what for Herr Huld in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?
(a) Soup
(b) Chicken
(c) Cake
(d) Tea

3. What does Herr Huld’s maid tell K. is the only way of escaping the legal problems K. is facing in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) To plead not guilty
(b) To hire an attorney
(c) To confess
(d) To leave the country

4. What time does the narrator say it is and describe as “the time when the streets are quiet” in the opening of “The End”?
(a) 11
(b) 10
(c) 9
(d) 12

5. What does the Priest call out as K. attempts to slip out of the cathedral in “In the Cathedral”?
(a) Your friend has left!
(b) You are a sinner!
(c) Josef K!
(d) Excuse me, Sir!

6. Huld’s maid tell K. in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer,” “I neither want nor need any other reward than for you to” what?
(a) Marry me
(b) Be fond of me
(c) Eat this soup
(d) Be free

7. How is the weather described on the day that K. goes to meet the Italian Businessman at the cathedral in “In the Cathedral”?
(a) Rainy
(b) Sunny
(c) Snowy
(d) Pleasant

8. Where do K. and the two strange guards go after departing the city in “The End”?
(a) A prison
(b) A cemetery
(c) A church
(d) A quarry

9. By what mode of transportation does K. travel to Titorelli’s home in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?
(a) Train
(b) Horseback
(c) Carriage
(d) Taxi

10. Describing Block, Herr Huld says in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer,” “True, as a person he’s unpleasant, has no manners and is grubby, but as far as his trial’s concerned, he’s” what?
(a) Arbitrary
(b) Impeccable
(c) Contemptible
(d) Responsible

11. Whose picture does K. show to Herr Huld’s maid when she asks about his lover in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) Titorelli’s
(b) Dr. Huld’s
(c) Willem’s
(d) Elsa’s

12. What sound is described in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer” as signifying the start of one’s trial?
(a) A whistle blow
(b) A gavel thump
(c) A woman’s scream
(d) A bell ring

13. How is Erna related to K.’s Uncle Karl?
(a) Erna is Karl’s mother
(b) Erna is Karl’s cousin
(c) Erna is Karl’s daughter
(d) Erna is Karl’s niece

14. What is Herr Block’s first name?
(a) Peter
(b) Rudi
(c) Franz
(d) Willem

15. The narrator claims in “The End,” “Logic may be unshakeable, but it cannot hold out against a human being who wants” what?
(a) To die
(b) Freedom
(c) Love
(d) To live

Short Answer Questions

1. When he arrives at the cathedral square, K. remembers “that even as a small child it had struck him that the curtains of the houses in the narrow square were nearly always all” what, in “In the Cathedral”?

2. In Erna’s letter to Uncle Karl, she writes that when she was unable to see K. at the bank, she had to return home because she had what appointment in “His Uncle – Leni”?

3. What is K.’s head placed on by the strange guards in “The End”?

4. What physical defect does Herr Huld’s maid demonstrate for K. in “His Uncle – Leni”?

5. What word from “In the Cathedral” refers to mental or emotional stability or composure?

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