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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In the Cathedral.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The guards tell K. that they are hired to stand guard of him in his apartment how many hours a day in “The Arrest”?
(a) 10
(b) 24
(c) 8
(d) 12

2. What is the name of the young maid who works for Herr Huld in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) Elsa
(b) Leni
(c) Bertold
(d) Sarah

3. Describing his early submissions in his trial, Herr Block tells K. that much of it was written in what language in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?
(a) German
(b) English
(c) French
(d) Latin

4. Herr Block says in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer,” “I will remind you of the old axiom: ‘For a suspect, movement is better than staying still, for someone who is still can always, without realizing it, be in the scales and be weighed with’” what?
(a) His sins
(b) Justice
(c) His truth
(d) His innocence

5. By what mode of transportation does K. travel to Titorelli’s home in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?
(a) Horseback
(b) Taxi
(c) Train
(d) Carriage

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the girl that K. asks in the stairwell whether Titorelli lives in the building in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?

2. Who moves into Fraülein Bürstner’s room with her in the course of the novel?

3. One of the guards being thrashed in “The Thrasher” tells K. that “it’s a tradition that” what “goes to the guards”?

4. When he goes to demonstrate what happened this morning for Fraülein Bürstner in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach,” K. notes that what was hanging by the window in her room at the time of the inquiry?

5. How many messengers are said to still be “working in dispatch in the little circle from a lamp” at K.’s offices in the beginning of “The Thrasher” as he leaves work?

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