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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wonders if there is still some remnant in Gregor left in the beetle?
(a) Gregor's mother.
(b) Gregor's father.
(c) Grete.
(d) The Charwoman.

3. How does Gregor's family react to Gregor's death?
(a) They are relieved.
(b) They mourn for days.
(c) They are devastated.
(d) They do not react.

4. What characteristic of Gregor's family do they all share that prevents them from helping Gregor?
(a) Carelessness.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Laziness.
(d) Stupidity.

5. What skills do the women in Gregor's family provide?
(a) The clean houses.
(b) They cook.
(c) They have no useful skills.
(d) They babysit.

6. What causes The Lodgers to eventually leave the family's home?
(a) Grete's violin playing.
(b) The small accommodations.
(c) The terrible, rotten food.
(d) The sight of Gregor.

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

8. What happens to Gregor when his father attempts to get him back into his room?
(a) Gregor is injured.
(b) Gregor injures the Chief Clerk.
(c) Gregor injures his father.
(d) Gregor injures his mother.

9. With what image does the story end?
(a) Gregor's coffin.
(b) A new city.
(c) Grete's youthfulness.
(d) A sunny, new day.

10. Who is the person who gets closest to the idea that Gregor understands them?
(a) The Charwoman.
(b) Gregor's father.
(c) Gregor's mother.
(d) Grete.

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

12. What is one of his former human habits that Gregor loses post-transformation?
(a) Literacy.
(b) Taste for fresh food.
(c) Logical reasoning.
(d) Skin sensation.

13. What will the Gregor family have no way of knowing with regards to the beetle?
(a) It is no longer Gregor.
(b) It has Gregor's thoughts.
(c) It has the ability to love them.
(d) It has the ability to kill them.

14. What does Grete represent at the end of the story?
(a) A disappointment.
(b) The cause for Gregor's death.
(c) Women's progression in Russia.
(d) Hope for the family.

15. How many parts is The Metamorphosis divided into?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the transformation take place at the beginning of The Metamorphosis?

2. What happens to Gregor in the first part of The Metamorphosis?

3. What was one thing Gregor's father did before the transformation that was attributed to his laziness?

4. What does Gregor note while he is being chased back into his room?

5. What can Gregor's family not perceive about the beetle?

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