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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The portrait that Titorelli shows K. in his apartment first appears to K. to be a painting of what, in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?
(a) A priest
(b) A doctor
(c) A judge
(d) A teacher

2. Whose picture does K. show to Herr Huld’s maid when she asks about his lover in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) Willem’s
(b) Titorelli’s
(c) Elsa’s
(d) Dr. Huld’s

3. What is K.’s first name in the novel?
(a) Franz
(b) James
(c) Peter
(d) Josef

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 eat it
(c) They throw it out the window
(d) They send it back

5. What word from “The Thrasher” refers to a dishonest, knavish person?
(a) Rogue
(b) Conquistador
(c) Hector
(d) Protagonist

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is K.’s trial said to be in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?

3. What does K. tell the messengers the sound is from when the guards scream as they’re beaten in “The Thrasher”?

4. Of K., the narrator says in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter,” “For once the court was going to find itself confronted by a defendant who knew how to” what?

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

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