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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does K. tell the messengers the sound is from when the guards scream as they’re beaten in “The Thrasher”?
(a) Him sneezing
(b) An owl passing the window
(c) A woman in the alley
(d) A howling dog

2. How many flats does the Usher say the student has been kicked out of in this building for sneaking into them to chase women in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
(a) 2
(b) 10
(c) 5
(d) 3

3. The Priest tells K. in “In the Cathedral” that he also works as what?
(a) An armed guard
(b) A prison chaplain
(c) An advisor to the president
(d) A volunteer firefighter

4. What do the two guards do with K.’s breakfast when it arrives in “The Arrest”?
(a) They give it to K
(b) They throw it out the window
(c) They eat it
(d) They send it back

5. What character is described in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach” as a girl “who worked serving in a wine-bar during the night and well into the morning, and during the daytime only received visitors from her bed”?
(a) Frau Grubach
(b) Leni
(c) Elsa
(d) Fraülein Bürstner

Short Answer Questions

1. Herr Block tells K. in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer” that waiting is not pointless. “The only thing that is pointless is” what?

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

3. Where does Uncle Karl know Huld from?

4. At what time does the priest begin ascending the pulpit presumably to give a sermon in “In the Cathedral”?

5. Speaking to the Usher’s Wife, K. tells her, “You could tell the examining magistrate, or anyone else who likes spreading important news, that none of the many tricks these gentlemen presumably have up their sleeves will ever persuade me to” what?

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