View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. K. understands that it is his duty to do what with the knife in “The End”?
(a) Take it and throw it into the fire
(b) Take it and stab himself
(c) Take it and run
(d) Take it and stab the guards

2. The narrator says in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” that when K. visits Herr Huld, Huld’s maid always makes a point of doing what?
(a) Bringing Huld’s tea
(b) Massaging Huld’s shoulders
(c) Bringing Huld’s dinner
(d) Bringing Huld’s medicine

3. How old is the girl that K. asks in the stairwell whether Titorelli lives in the building in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?
(a) 9
(b) 13
(c) 6
(d) 11

4. Herr Block tells K. in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer” that Herr Huld has been handling his business affairs ever since he took it over how many years ago?
(a) 10
(b) 5
(c) 20
(d) 15

5. 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?
(a) Fight back
(b) Run from the authorities
(c) Stand up for his rights
(d) Get revenge

6. Where do K. and the two strange guards go after departing the city in “The End”?
(a) A quarry
(b) A cemetery
(c) A church
(d) A prison

7. The Manufacturer tells K. in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” that he heard about K.’s trial from Titorelli. What is Titorelli’s profession?
(a) He is a court usher
(b) He is a judge
(c) He is a lawyer
(d) He is a painter

8. What word, used by Herr Huld’s maid in “His Uncle – Leni,” means refusing to agree or compromise; inflexible?
(a) Participatory
(b) Intolerable
(c) Exultant
(d) Intransigent

9. How old is Erna said to be in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) 16
(b) 13
(c) 17
(d) 15

10. When he arrives at the cathedral square, K. remembers “that even as a small child it had struck him that the curtains of the houses in the narrow square were nearly always all” what, in “In the Cathedral”?
(a) Half open
(b) Drawn
(c) Made of leather
(d) Wide open

11. Titorelli tells K. in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” that the painting in his apartment is of Justice combined with whom?
(a) The Goddess of Fertility
(b) The Goddess of Death
(c) The Goddess of Victory
(d) The Goddess of Revenge

12. The narrator claims in “The End,” “Logic may be unshakeable, but it cannot hold out against a human being who wants” what?
(a) Love
(b) To live
(c) Freedom
(d) To die

13. What word from “In the Cathedral” refers to an ornamental rail with supports?
(a) Promontory
(b) Proscenium
(c) Balustrade
(d) Coliseum

14. It is the day before K.’s birthday to turn how old in the opening of “The End”?
(a) 31
(b) 29
(c) 32
(d) 30

15. What object does Herr Huld’s maid give to K. so that he can return and visit her in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) A door key
(b) Her telephone number
(c) A map to her room
(d) Her private address

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose picture does K. show to Herr Huld’s maid when she asks about his lover in “His Uncle – Leni”?

2. How is the weather described on the day that K. goes to meet the Italian Businessman at the cathedral in “In the Cathedral”?

3. Where does Uncle Karl know Huld from?

4. By what name does Uncle Karl introduce himself to Herr Huld when he and K. arrive at Huld’s home in “His Uncle – Leni”?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 579 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample