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

Multiple Choice 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”?
(a) 6
(b) 4
(c) 2
(d) 5

2. What season is it in the opening of “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?
(a) Summer
(b) Autumn
(c) Spring
(d) Winter

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

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

5. 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 free
(b) Marry me
(c) Eat this soup
(d) Be fond of me

6. Whose picture does K. show to Herr Huld’s maid when she asks about his lover in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) Elsa’s
(b) Willem’s
(c) Dr. Huld’s
(d) Titorelli’s

7. What does Herr Huld’s maid tell K. is the only way of escaping the legal problems K. is facing in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) To plead not guilty
(b) To confess
(c) To hire an attorney
(d) To leave the country

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

9. What is K. carrying with him when he goes to the cathedral in “In the Cathedral”?
(a) A family photograph album
(b) A passport and a plane ticket
(c) A box of chocolates
(d) An album of sights in the city

10. 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”?
(a) 11
(b) 10
(c) 8
(d) Midnight

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

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

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

14. 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) Tea
(b) Soup
(c) Cake
(d) Chicken

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What part of Italy does the narrator say the Italian Businessman is from in “In the Cathedral”?

4. When the Priest descends from the pulpit in ““In the Cathedral,” he tells K., “had to speak to you from a distance at first, otherwise I let myself be too easily influenced and forget” what?

5. K. thinks to himself as he is escorted from his apartment by the strangers in “The End,” “The only thing I can do now is to retain a calm clarity of mind right to the end. I was always trying to interfere in the world with” what?

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