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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

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

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

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

5. K. asks the two men who appear at his apartment in the beginning of “The End” at which what are they engaged?
(a) Painter's studio
(b) Theatre
(c) Mechanic shop
(d) Court

6. 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 school exam
(b) A date
(c) A choir meeting
(d) A piano lesson

7. How is Erna related to K.’s Uncle Karl?
(a) Erna is Karl’s cousin
(b) Erna is Karl’s daughter
(c) Erna is Karl’s mother
(d) Erna is Karl’s niece

8. Herr Huld tells K. in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer” that his maid finds almost all of whom attractive?
(a) The judges
(b) The defendants
(c) The carpenters
(d) The priests

9. Huld’s maid tell K. in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer,” “I neither want nor need any other reward than for you to” what?
(a) Be fond of me
(b) Be free
(c) Eat this soup
(d) Marry me

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 throwing a plate against the wall
(b) Her dropping the tea set
(c) A dog crashing into the kitchen
(d) An intruder trying to break into the house

11. 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 nose
(b) The eyes
(c) The ears
(d) The lips

12. 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) Ask the right questions
(b) Shorten the trial
(c) Draw out the trial
(d) Hire the right lawyers

13. What word from “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” means to clear of an accusation?
(a) Exonerate
(b) Accuse
(c) Condemn
(d) Propagate

14. 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 brutality she represented for him
(b) The temptation she represented for him
(c) The admonition she represented for him
(d) The innocence she represented for him

15. Herr Block tells K. after the maid’s disappearance that she’s probably in the kitchen making what for Herr Huld in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?
(a) Cake
(b) Tea
(c) Soup
(d) Chicken

Short Answer Questions

1. How many unregistered lawyers does Herr Block say he has working on his case in addition to Herr Huld in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?

2. 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”?

3. By what method of transportation does K. get to the cathedral in “In the Cathedral”?

4. 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”?

5. What time does the narrator say it is and describe as “the time when the streets are quiet” in the opening of “The End”?

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