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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What could Gregor's speech potentially arouse in others, if understood?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Immense disgust.
(c) Great sympathy.
(d) Confusion.

2. What is the Kafkaesque theme consistent within The Metamorphosis?
(a) A trapped consciousness unable to express itself.
(b) A banal life unchanged by extraordinary events.
(c) Taking one's life for granted.
(d) The inconsistencies of Russian idealism.

3. What does the Chief Clerk say about Gregor's voice?
(a) He thinks there are two people in the room.
(b) It sounds like he is sick.
(c) It sounds like a woman's.
(d) It is not human.

4. What keeps Gregor from actually falling asleep?
(a) Loud noises his family makes.
(b) The smell of breakfast cooking.
(c) His beetle body.
(d) Sounds coming from the radiator.

5. How does Gregor feel in regards to his family, following his transformation?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Optimistic.
(c) Fearful.
(d) Pessimistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gregor's mother ask Gregor while he is still laying in bed?

2. What does the Chief Clerk claim Gregor has been known for?

3. What does Gregor announce when he leaves his room?

4. What is Gregor's metamorphosis symbolic of?

5. Who declares, after the Lodgers' threats, that they cannot go on living like this with Gregor?

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