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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) Contrary
(c) Garrulous
(d) Existentialist

2. How long does Herr Block say his trial has been going on in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?
(a) Over 2 years
(b) Over six months
(c) Over 5 years
(d) Over a year

3. 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

4. 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) Court
(d) Mechanic shop

5. The Manufacturer tells K. in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” that K. is “almost a” what?
(a) Doctor
(b) Judge
(c) Lawyer
(d) Defendant

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

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

8. What is K.’s response when Titorelli asks him in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter,” “Are you innocent?”
(a) I don't know
(b) Yes
(c) That depends
(d) No

9. 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) Under his bed
(b) In his closet
(c) In his attic
(d) In his wash bin

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

11. 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?
(a) Five hands
(b) Two hands
(c) Ten hands
(d) Six hands

12. 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?
(a) Lifting it to the ceiling
(b) Brushing it with cloth
(c) Hitting it with hammers
(d) Painting it with flowers

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

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

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one of the guards do to K. after they’ve stopped and rested outside the city in “The End”?

2. What word from “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” means to clear of an accusation?

3. 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?

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

5. What does the Priest call out as K. attempts to slip out of the cathedral in “In the Cathedral”?

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