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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the negative things Gregor recalls following his transformation?
(a) Irritable customers.
(b) Low pay.
(c) Foreign hotels.
(d) Unstable insurance.

2. What does The Charwoman triumphantly announce to the Samsas?
(a) She has revived Gregor,
(b) She has disposed of the creature.
(c) She has found someone else to rent their room.
(d) She has found a better paying job.

3. What does Gregor do whenever Grete comes into his room?
(a) Indicates where the room needs cleaning.
(b) Hides underneath the sofa.
(c) Tries to speak to her.
(d) Flies out the window.

4. What does Gregor do to try and lull himself to sleep?
(a) Drinks some warm milk.
(b) Shuts the window drapes.
(c) Rocks back and forth.
(d) Puts a pillow over his face.

5. What does the reader discover about Gregor's father's past?
(a) He is not the father of Grete and Gregor.
(b) He used to have another family.
(c) He suffered from a debilitating accident.
(d) His business failed several years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gregor tell himself as he gets up and dresses for breakfast?

2. What does Gregor lack due to his vocation?

3. After taking a job as a bank messenger, what does Gregor's father take pride in?

4. What does Gregor recall after witnessing his transformation?

5. What irritates Gregor and makes him anxious as he is being shooed back into his room?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does everyone (Gregor's parents, Gregor and The Lodgers) react to Grete's violin serenade?

2. What plan do The Lodgers hatch once they see Gregor out of his room for the first time?

3. How does Gregor being disabled for a month because of his family's physical abuse change the atmosphere within the household?

4. What does Gregor say about being a traveling salesman in his eloquent speech to his family and the Chief Clerk so that the Chief Clerk writes him a sympathetic report?

5. What does Gregor notice about the dynamic between his family and the new tenants, The Lodgers?

6. What do Gregor's mother, father and sister start doing in order to help out with the family's finances?

7. What does Gregor ponder as he looks through the crack in his door on the family living room?

8. What is the first thing Gregor thinks about when he wakes up to his transformation and why?

9. What does Gregor discover about himself post-transformation when Grete leaves him bread and milk?

10. What does Gregor see the Chief Clerk's visit to his house as a sign of?

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