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

Multiple Choice 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”?
(a) A priest
(b) A doctor
(c) A teacher
(d) A judge

2. K. understands that it is his duty to do what with the knife in “The End”?
(a) Take it and stab himself
(b) Take it and stab the guards
(c) Take it and run
(d) Take it and throw it into the fire

3. Who calls K. at his office to tell him in “In the Cathedral,” “They’re hunting you down”?
(a) Dr. Huld
(b) Frau Grubach
(c) Elsa
(d) Leni

4. How does Titorelli say he came to his position with the courts in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?
(a) He inherited it
(b) He applied as an apprentice
(c) He knew the high court judge
(d) He got a recommendation from Dr. Huld

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”?
(a) 12
(b) 10
(c) 9
(d) 11

6. How old is K.’s trial said to be in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?
(a) 6 months old
(b) 3 months old
(c) 1 year old
(d) 2 years old

7. By what mode of transportation does K. travel to Titorelli’s home in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?
(a) Train
(b) Carriage
(c) Taxi
(d) Horseback

8. 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 admonition she represented for him
(c) The innocence she represented for him
(d) The temptation she represented for him

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

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

11. 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) 5
(b) 10
(c) 15
(d) 20

12. By what nickname does the narrator say K. used to refer to his uncle as in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) The Old Man on the Hill
(b) The Ghost from the Country
(c) The Wandering Gypsy
(d) The Elder from the Mountains

13. 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 confess
(b) To plead not guilty
(c) To hire an attorney
(d) To leave the country

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

15. 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) Insurmountable
(c) Enviable
(d) Justifiable

Short Answer Questions

1. What physical defect does Herr Huld’s maid demonstrate for K. in “His Uncle – Leni”?

2. K.’s Uncle Karl is said to be what area when his character is introduced in “His Uncle – Leni”?

3. What word from “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” means patently evident or certain; unquestionable?

4. 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”?

5. What sound is described in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer” as signifying the start of one’s trial?

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