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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 is the name of the strange guard that opens K.’s door when he rings for his breakfast in the beginning of “The Arrest”?
(a) Franz
(b) Willem
(c) Kullych
(d) Kaminer

2. 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) White
(b) Black
(c) Blue
(d) Gray

3. When K. leaves Fräulein Bürstner’s room at the end of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach,” he thinks “for a while about the way he had behaved; he was” what?
(a) Worried sick about it
(b) Uncomfortable but serene
(c) Deeply troubled by it
(d) Satisfied with it

4. K.’s Uncle Karl is said to be what area when his character is introduced in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) The country
(b) The city
(c) The capital
(d) The suburbs

5. 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?
(a) Brushing it with cloth
(b) Lifting it to the ceiling
(c) Painting it with flowers
(d) Hitting it with hammers

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “stiff, swinging his arms” and apathetic?

2. At what time does the Italian Businessman suggest meeting K. at the cathedral in “In the Cathedral”?

3. On what day of the week does K. return to the courtroom in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

4. Where does Uncle Karl know Huld from?

5. How is Erna related to K.’s Uncle Karl?

(see the answer key)

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