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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 at K.’s house tell him that his jacket for the meeting with the supervisor must be what color in the beginning of “The Arrest”?
(a) Blue
(b) Gray
(c) Black
(d) White

2. K. tells the guards who are to be thrashed in “The Thrasher,” “I didn’t complain, I just said what had happened in my apartment. And your behavior wasn’t exactly” what?
(a) Irreproachable either
(b) Empathetic either
(c) Piteous either
(d) Commendable either

3. The narrator describes K. as generally staying at the office until what time in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) 10
(b) 8
(c) 11
(d) 9

4. What word from “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” means to break away from constituted authority?
(a) Denial
(b) Revolt
(c) Constituency
(d) Apparition

5. At what time does K. plan to arrive at the courtroom on the day of his first hearing in “The First Hearing”?
(a) 7
(b) 6
(c) 9
(d) 8

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the guards being thrashed says he has a family to feed in “The Thrasher”?

2. Huld’s maid tell K. in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer,” “I neither want nor need any other reward than for you to” what?

3. 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”?

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?

5. What word from “The First Hearing” refers to a child’s apron or woman’s sleeveless garment worn over a dress?

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