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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Analysis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Kafka pose with the scene of Grete playing her violin and The Lodgers' reaction?
(a) Does having the ability to logically reason make something human?
(b) Are not all beings with a consciousness human?
(c) Is humanity really a matter of physical shape?
(d) Is beauty still beauty without any adorers?

2. What does Gregor's family do when he does not come out of his room?
(a) Threaten him.
(b) Bring him hot tea.
(c) Leave him alone.
(d) Pester him.

3. What does the Chief Clerk want to do at Gregor's house?
(a) See if Gregor is feeling well.
(b) Accuse and intimidate Gregor.
(c) Give Gregor his paycheck.
(d) Berate Gregor's family.

4. What does Grete, Gregor's sister, do while their father knocks on Gregor's door?
(a) Goes to her room.
(b) Yells at the Chief Clerk.
(c) Laughs.
(d) Cries.

5. Why will no one at the office believe Gregor if he said he was sick?
(a) They all just received their shots.
(b) No one else in the office has been sick.
(c) He always claims to be sick.
(d) He has not been sick in the last five years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gregor recall following his transformation?

2. How is a sense of grim, hopeless desperation developed in the third part of The Metamorphosis?

3. What does the reader discover about Gregor's father's past?

4. What kind of role does Grete take over in the family in the third part of the book?

5. Why does Gregor's attempt to save some of his belongings end up backfiring on him?

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