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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 woman who moves in with Fraülein Bürstner holds what profession?
(a) She is a lawyer
(b) She is a banker
(c) She is a secretary
(d) She is a teacher

2. Where does K. see Kaminer on his way to the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?
(a) At a café
(b) At the library
(c) On a bus
(d) On a train

3. Whose claim that his fiancée is waiting for him outside turns out to be a lie in “The Thrasher”?
(a) Kullych’s
(b) Titorelli’s
(c) Willem’s
(d) Franz’s

4. What season is described in the opening of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) Autumn
(b) Winter
(c) Spring
(d) Summer

5. What is K.’s response when Titorelli asks him in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter,” “Are you innocent?”
(a) That depends
(b) No
(c) Yes
(d) I don't know

Short Answer Questions

1. K. decides when looking for the courtroom in “The First Hearing” to ask around for a carpenter named what?

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

3. What word from “In the Cathedral” refers to an official of a church charged with tending to the care of the edifice and its contents, ringing the bell, and sometimes with burying the dead?

4. What is K.’s first name in the novel?

5. What does K. say repeatedly to the woman and man who help him out of the Court Offices in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

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