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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The End.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What physical defect does Herr Huld’s maid demonstrate for K. in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) She has a club foot
(b) She has six fingers on her right hand
(c) She has a third eye
(d) Her fingers are webbed

2. What character is described in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach” as a girl “who worked serving in a wine-bar during the night and well into the morning, and during the daytime only received visitors from her bed”?
(a) Elsa
(b) Leni
(c) Frau Grubach
(d) Fraülein Bürstner

3. In the ending of “The Thrasher,” K. waits to ensure he’s alone as he leaves his office, then goes home “weary and his mind” what?
(a) A blank
(b) Enraptured
(c) Racing
(d) On a brink

4. What countries comprised the Allied Powers in the beginning of World War I?
(a) France, Spain, and Germany
(b) The United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire
(c) Japan, Israel, and the Russian Empire
(d) Germany and Austria-Hungary

5. What term refers to short, allegorical stories designed to illustrate a truth or moral lesson?
(a) Expositions
(b) Epilogues
(c) Parables
(d) Denouements

Short Answer Questions

1. The first painting that K. examines with his electric torch in the cathedral shows a standard treatment of what scene?

2. Herr Huld tells K. in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer” that his maid finds almost all of whom attractive?

3. Who calls K. at his office to tell him in “In the Cathedral,” “They’re hunting you down”?

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

5. What season is it in the opening of “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?

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