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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gregor's family and the Chief Clerk hear when Gregor delivers his eloquent speech?
(a) Twittering animal noises.
(b) Buzzing flies.
(c) Gregor's sobs.
(d) Grete's crying.

2. How does Gregor become injured after emerging from his room for the first time?
(a) He is wedged in the door.
(b) He trips over the Chief Clerk.
(c) He ruptures his antennae.
(d) His wings are ripped off.

3. How is Gregor's family dependent on Gregor?
(a) Love.
(b) Family obligation.
(c) Guilty conscience.
(d) Financially.

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

5. What does Gregor note while he is being chased back into his room?
(a) His father's inconsiderate acts.
(b) His mother's hysterics.
(c) The Chief Clerk has left.
(d) Grete is not there.

6. What does Gregor assume his family will do when they see his transformation?
(a) Hug him.
(b) Abandon him.
(c) Step on him.
(d) Support him.

7. How does Gregor's ironic attempt to hold onto something human end?
(a) With his family assuming he is a dangerous beast.
(b) With his mother and sister drifting apart in their relationship.
(c) With his realization that he no longer wants human things.
(d) With his realization that he would rather be outside than inside.

8. What is Gregor's metamorphosis symbolic of?
(a) Political change.
(b) Alienation.
(c) Identity crisis.
(d) Instability.

9. How could Gregor's personality be described?
(a) Paranoid.
(b) Negligent.
(c) Unsympathetic.
(d) Naive.

10. What is consistent of Gregor's relationship with his father that is shown by how his father treats Gregor?
(a) Disobedience.
(b) Negligence.
(c) Affection.
(d) Misunderstandings.

11. Why does Gregor try to save some of his belongings that Grete is attempting to dispose of?
(a) Because his mother thinks he would benefit from human surroundings.
(b) He feels sentimentally about everything in the room.
(c) Because he paid for everything himself.
(d) Because he is afraid he will turn into a full-on animal without his things.

12. How does Gregor act toward his mother?
(a) Dismissive and unconcerned.
(b) The prodigal son.
(c) Typical, devoted son.
(d) Overly affectionate.

13. Who turns against Gregor in the third part of The Metamorphosis?
(a) Gregor's mother.
(b) Grete.
(c) The Lodgers.
(d) The Charwoman.

14. In spite of his new situation, what is the only thing Gregor thinks about?
(a) The neighborhood.
(b) His family.
(c) His boss.
(d) His ex-girlfriend.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of role does Gregor take over in the family in the third part of the book?

2. What does Gregor's father not even consider doing when trying to get Gregor back into his room?

3. What two roles within the story, regarding their relationship with Gregor, are reversed?

4. What is one of his former human habits that Gregor loses post-transformation?

5. What do The Lodgers symbolize when they move into the family's home?

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