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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 word from “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” refers to a person engaged in a lawsuit?
(a) Litigant
(b) Candidate
(c) Elucidate
(d) Liturgy

2. What is Herr Block’s first name?
(a) Franz
(b) Willem
(c) Peter
(d) Rudi

3. How is Erna related to K.’s Uncle Karl?
(a) Erna is Karl’s cousin
(b) Erna is Karl’s daughter
(c) Erna is Karl’s niece
(d) Erna is Karl’s mother

4. At what time does Fraülein Bürstner return home in the evening as K. waits for her arrival in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) 11:30
(b) 11:00
(c) 12:00
(d) 1:30

5. At what time does the priest begin ascending the pulpit presumably to give a sermon in “In the Cathedral”?
(a) 1
(b) 11
(c) 12
(d) 4

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. 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?

3. On what street is K.’s courtroom said to be located in “The First Hearing”?

4. What is written on the piece of paper “in clumsy, childish handwriting” by the stairwell to the loft in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

5. What word from “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” means to clear of an accusation?

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