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

2. Why does the transformation take place at the beginning of The Metamorphosis?
(a) He wished for a change the night before.
(b) It is all a dream.
(c) It is punishment from a previous life.
(d) It is never specified.

3. How is a sense of grim, hopeless desperation developed in the third part of The Metamorphosis?
(a) Gregor is unable to continue his writing.
(b) The family slips deeper into poverty.
(c) The neighborhood shuns the family.
(d) The family is unable to find jobs.

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

5. When is Grete's narrow-mindedness truly revealed in part two of The Metamorphosis?
(a) When she refuses to find a job,
(b) When she assumes he would like bread and milk.
(c) When she lets the Chief Clerk come in.
(d) When she moves out Gregor's furniture.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Although Gregor loses some of his human tendencies, what is he able to hold onto?

3. How does Gregor become injured after emerging from his room for the first time?

4. What does Gregor assume his family will do when they see his transformation?

5. Who turns against Gregor in the third part of The Metamorphosis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is shocking to the reader in the first part of The Metamorphosis after Gregor wakes up to his new insect body?

2. As the third part of The Metamorphosis opens, what creates a sense of tragedy and despair?

3. What does the visit of the Chief Clerk serve to represent within The Metamorphosis?

4. What is the irony that exists for Grete being designated as Gregor's care taker and her interactions with him post-transformation?

5. If his speech could be understood, what would his words to the Chief Clerk and his family have served to do?

6. What could the interchange of roles between Grete and Gregor's father be Kafka's social commentary for?

7. How does Gregor's effort to hold on to his human belongings and, thus, his humanity backfire?

8. What do Gregor's interactions with his father throughout The Metamorphosis illuminate for the reader?

9. What human capacity does Gregor keep as the narrative develops and how is this shown?

10. What disparity exists for Gregor throughout The Metamorphosis that creates tension within the story?

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