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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When K. sees a woman who appears to be Fräulein Bürstner in “The End,” he takes “the direction the woman in front of them was taking, not because he wanted to catch up with her, not because he wanted to see her for as long as possible, but solely so as not to forget” what?
(a) The temptation she represented for him
(b) The brutality she represented for him
(c) The innocence she represented for him
(d) The admonition she represented for him

2. 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) Balustrade
(c) Strider
(d) Sexton

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) 11
(c) 6
(d) 13

4. At what time does the Italian Businessman suggest meeting K. at the cathedral in “In the Cathedral”?
(a) 11
(b) 10
(c) 1
(d) 2

5. 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?
(a) Hiring a lawyer
(b) Entering a plea of guilty
(c) Entering a plea of innocence
(d) Acting on your own initiative

6. The Priest tells K. in “In the Cathedral” that he also works as what?
(a) An armed guard
(b) A volunteer firefighter
(c) An advisor to the president
(d) A prison chaplain

7. 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) Drawn
(b) Wide open
(c) Half open
(d) Made of leather

8. 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 sheepskin rug
(b) The handkerchief
(c) The curtain rods
(d) The dog by his feet

9. What word from “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer” means characterized by sickly sentimentality?
(a) Conciliatory
(b) Corrupt
(c) Mawkish
(d) Petulant

10. When K. enters the hallway to see what the crashing sound was at Herr Huld’s home, Huld’s maid tells K. that the noise was caused by what, in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) Her dropping the tea set
(b) A dog crashing into the kitchen
(c) Her throwing a plate against the wall
(d) An intruder trying to break into the house

11. What word from “The End” means highly offensive or hateful?
(a) Adulatory
(b) Apprehensive
(c) Odious
(d) Mischievous

12. Where does Uncle Karl know Huld from?
(a) The military
(b) The lecture circuit
(c) Church
(d) School

13. In Erna’s letter to Uncle Karl in “His Uncle – Leni,” Erna says that K. sent her what gift for her “name day”?
(a) A card with money in it
(b) Silk stockings
(c) A dozen roses
(d) A box of chocolates

14. 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) Rainy
(c) Pleasant
(d) Snowy

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

Short Answer 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?

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

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

4. 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”?

5. Where is K. stabbed with the knife in “The End”?

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