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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 does Gregor believe the "little changes" of his body to be when he wakes up?
(a) A dream.
(b) Genetic mutations.
(c) Normal aches and pains.
(d) An act of God.

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

3. What aspect of the story is developed throughout The Metamorphosis?
(a) How long Gregor has to live.
(b) Gregor's family trying to come to terms with the situation.
(c) The power of a family's bond.
(d) How the family's situation serves as a microcosm for Russian society.

4. What does Grete earn from her parents in return for her care taking of Gregor?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Contempt.
(c) A weekly allowance.
(d) Disgust.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gregor's family eventually do to him, despite his best efforts?

2. How do The Lodgers react to Grete's violin playing?

3. How is a sense of grim, hopeless desperation developed in the third part of The Metamorphosis?

4. Why does Gregor try to save some of his belongings that Grete is attempting to dispose of?

5. What does Gregor's family not realize about the beetle when they speak in front of it?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What kind of atmosphere does Gregor live in throughout the narrative?

3. What does Grete believe will benefit Gregor and what does Gregor's mother believe will benefit Gregor?

4. What is the cause for Gregor's transformation into a giant beetle?

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

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

7. What does Gregor lose about himself in the second part of the story?

8. What is Gregor's transformation a possible symbol for?

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

10. What does Grete become a symbol of at the end of The Metamorphosis and why?

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