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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the end of “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer,” Leni tells Block to leave what alone and listen to the lawyer?
(a) The dog by his feet
(b) The handkerchief
(c) The curtain rods
(d) The sheepskin rug

2. The Trial was written between 1914 and 1915 but was not published until what year?
(a) 1922
(b) 1923
(c) 1929
(d) 1925

3. How old is K.’s trial said to be in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?
(a) 3 months old
(b) 1 year old
(c) 2 years old
(d) 6 months old

4. What does Herr Huld’s maid tell K. is the only way of escaping the legal problems K. is facing in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) To leave the country
(b) To hire an attorney
(c) To plead not guilty
(d) To confess

5. When the Priest descends from the pulpit in ““In the Cathedral,” he tells K., “had to speak to you from a distance at first, otherwise I let myself be too easily influenced and forget” what?
(a) My inheritance
(b) Your guilt
(c) Your innocence
(d) My official duty

6. At what time does K. arrive at his office when he is to show the Italian Businessman around the city in “In the Cathedral”?
(a) 4
(b) 5
(c) 6
(d) 7

7. In Erna’s letter to Uncle Karl, she writes that when she was unable to see K. at the bank, she had to return home because she had what appointment in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) A choir meeting
(b) A date
(c) A piano lesson
(d) A school exam

8. By what mode of transportation does K. travel to Titorelli’s home in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?
(a) Horseback
(b) Train
(c) Taxi
(d) Carriage

9. 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) A map to her room
(c) Her telephone number
(d) Her private address

10. What is K.’s head placed on by the strange guards in “The End”?
(a) A tree stump
(b) A stone
(c) A silk pillow
(d) A guillotine

11. What word from “In the Cathedral” refers to mental or emotional stability or composure?
(a) Equanimity
(b) Agitation
(c) Discomposure
(d) Imbalance

12. Describing his early submissions in his trial, Herr Block tells K. that much of it was written in what language in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?
(a) Latin
(b) English
(c) French
(d) German

13. How does Titorelli say he came to his position with the courts in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?
(a) He got a recommendation from Dr. Huld
(b) He inherited it
(c) He applied as an apprentice
(d) He knew the high court judge

14. What sound is described in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer” as signifying the start of one’s trial?
(a) A whistle blow
(b) A woman’s scream
(c) A gavel thump
(d) A bell ring

15. The narrator says in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” that “the hierarchy and upper echelons of the court were” what?
(a) Justifiable
(b) Enviable
(c) Endless
(d) Insurmountable

Short Answer Questions

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

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. What part of Italy does the narrator say the Italian Businessman is from in “In the Cathedral”?

4. Herr Block says in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer,” “I will remind you of the old axiom: ‘For a suspect, movement is better than staying still, for someone who is still can always, without realizing it, be in the scales and be weighed with’” what?

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?

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