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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Sexton
(b) Balustrade
(c) Piper
(d) Strider

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

3. 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

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

5. What part of Italy does the narrator say the Italian Businessman is from in “In the Cathedral”?
(a) Eastern Italy
(b) Western Italy
(c) Southern Italy
(d) Northern Italy

6. 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 box of chocolates
(b) A card with money in it
(c) A dozen roses
(d) Silk stockings

7. Where is K. stabbed with the knife in “The End”?
(a) In the head
(b) In the throat
(c) In the heart
(d) In the abdomen

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

9. 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) Bats
(c) Roaches
(d) Flies

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

11. 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) In his attic
(c) Under his bed
(d) In his wash bin

12. Herr Block tells K. in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer” that Herr Huld has been handling his business affairs ever since he took it over how many years ago?
(a) 15
(b) 10
(c) 5
(d) 20

13. What object does Herr Huld’s maid give to K. so that he can return and visit her in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) Her private address
(b) A map to her room
(c) A door key
(d) Her telephone number

14. 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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. 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?

3. What is K. carrying with him when he goes to the cathedral in “In the Cathedral”?

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. What is K.’s response when Titorelli asks him in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter,” “Are you innocent?”

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