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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Erna’s letter to Uncle Karl, she writes that when she was unable to see K. at the bank, she had to return home because she had what appointment in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) A school exam
(b) A piano lesson
(c) A date
(d) A choir meeting

2. The second book that K. examines in the courtroom in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” is a novel titled what?
(a) The Torments Grete Had to Suffer from her Husband Hans
(b) Little Women
(c) The Torrential Downpour upon the Ungrateful and Unworthy
(d) The Trial

3. The Thrasher tells K. when he discovers him getting ready to beat the guards, “You shouldn’t believe everything they say. Their fear of being beaten has made them a little” what?
(a) Desperate
(b) Cowardly
(c) Incomprehensible
(d) Feeble-minded

4. What is the name of the student that the Usher’s Wife says has been pursuing her for some time in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
(a) Hasterer
(b) Bertold
(c) Willem
(d) Franz

5. What word from “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” means patently evident or certain; unquestionable?
(a) Legendary
(b) Counterfeit
(c) Indubitable
(d) Ambiguous

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is K.’s trial said to be in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?

2. When K. arrives at Titorelli’s home, the narrator describes passing a plumber’s workshop where three apprentices are “standing in a semicircle around some piece of work and” doing what?

3. Titorelli tells K. in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” that if it weren’t for what, he’d have left this studio long ago?

4. Which of the guards does the Thrasher say got fat from eating breakfasts at all his arrests in “The Thrasher”?

5. What word does the Manufacturer use to describe Titorelli that means excessively talkative or rambling?

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