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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Titorelli describes one of the tenement children as having hidden where in his apartment the previous night in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?
(a) In his closet
(b) Under his bed
(c) In his attic
(d) In his wash bin

2. 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 doctor
(b) A judge
(c) A teacher
(d) A priest

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

4. What word does the Manufacturer use to describe Titorelli that means excessively talkative or rambling?
(a) Garrulous
(b) Contrary
(c) Obtuse
(d) Existentialist

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

6. What is the name of the young maid who works for Herr Huld in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) Leni
(b) Elsa
(c) Sarah
(d) Bertold

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

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

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

10. 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) 10
(b) 12
(c) 9
(d) 11

11. Who is the man who is sitting in the corner of Herr Huld’s room in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) The Priest
(b) The Examining Magistrate
(c) The Superior Court Judge
(d) The Chief Clerk

12. What does one of the guards do to K. after they’ve stopped and rested outside the city in “The End”?
(a) He forces K. to light a bonfire
(b) He removes K.’s jacket and shirt
(c) He gets on his knees and prays for K
(d) He wraps a rope around K.’s neck

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

14. 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) 6
(b) 4
(c) 5
(d) 7

15. 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) Massaging Huld’s shoulders
(b) Bringing Huld’s tea
(c) Bringing Huld’s dinner
(d) Bringing Huld’s medicine

Short Answer Questions

1. It’s after what time when K. rings on Herr Huld’s door in the beginning of “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?

2. What word from “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer” means characterized by sickly sentimentality?

3. Herr Block tells K. in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer” that waiting is not pointless. “The only thing that is pointless is” what?

4. 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?

5. How long does Herr Block say his trial has been going on in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?

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