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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As K. resists against the two strangers who take him away from his apartment in “The End,” he envisions what creatures tearing their own legs off?
(a) Flies
(b) Roaches
(c) Rats
(d) Bats

2. What season is it in the opening of “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?
(a) Winter
(b) Spring
(c) Autumn
(d) Summer

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?
(a) Piper
(b) Strider
(c) Balustrade
(d) Sexton

4. What is Herr Block’s first name?
(a) Franz
(b) Willem
(c) Peter
(d) Rudi

5. Uncle Karl says to K. in “His Uncle – Leni,” “Do you want to lose the trial? Do you know what that means? That means you’ll simply be” what?
(a) Sentenced to die
(b) Deleted
(c) Acquitted
(d) Incarcerated

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

7. What time does the narrator say it is and describe as “the time when the streets are quiet” in the opening of “The End”?
(a) 12
(b) 9
(c) 10
(d) 11

8. Describing Block, Herr Huld says in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer,” “True, as a person he’s unpleasant, has no manners and is grubby, but as far as his trial’s concerned, he’s” what?
(a) Impeccable
(b) Contemptible
(c) Arbitrary
(d) Responsible

9. The first painting that K. examines with his electric torch in the cathedral shows a standard treatment of what scene?
(a) The Crucifixion of Christ
(b) Moses parting the Red Sea
(c) The Birth of Christ
(d) The Entombment of Christ

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

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

12. How is the weather described on the day that K. goes to meet the Italian Businessman at the cathedral in “In the Cathedral”?
(a) Pleasant
(b) Rainy
(c) Sunny
(d) Snowy

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

14. Herr Block tells K. in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer” that the defendants tend toward superstition. “One of these superstitions, for example, is that many claim they can see the outcome of the trial in the defendant’s face, especially in the marking of” what?
(a) The ears
(b) The eyes
(c) The lips
(d) The nose

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from “The End” means highly offensive or hateful?

2. K. understands that it is his duty to do what with the knife in “The End”?

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

4. How is the cathedral square described when K. arrives in “In the Cathedral”?

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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