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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The judge who Herr Huld spoke to about Block said of Block in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer,” “Block’s just cunning. He’s gathered a lot of experience and knows how to” what?
(a) Draw out the trial
(b) Ask the right questions
(c) Shorten the trial
(d) Hire the right lawyers

4. By what method of transportation does K. get to the cathedral in “In the Cathedral”?
(a) Horseback
(b) Taxi
(c) Train
(d) Bus

5. How many times is the knife twisted round after K. is stabbed in “The End”?
(a) Four times
(b) Once
(c) Twice
(d) Three times

6. 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) Incarcerated
(b) Acquitted
(c) Sentenced to die
(d) Deleted

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

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

9. 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) Responsible
(b) Arbitrary
(c) Impeccable
(d) Contemptible

10. 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) Rats
(b) Roaches
(c) Flies
(d) Bats

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

12. 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?
(a) Justice
(b) His truth
(c) His innocence
(d) His sins

13. 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 lips
(c) The eyes
(d) The nose

14. 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) French
(c) German
(d) English

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By what nickname does the narrator say K. used to refer to his uncle as in “His Uncle – Leni”?

3. Where do K. and the two strange guards go after departing the city in “The End”?

4. What organization had K. been a member of relating to art history, as described in “In the Cathedral”?

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

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