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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Herr Block’s first name?
(a) Rudi
(b) Peter
(c) Franz
(d) Willem

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

3. Uncle Karl says to K. in “His Uncle – Leni,” “Do you want to lose the trial? Do you know what that means? That means you’ll simply be” what?
(a) Deleted
(b) Acquitted
(c) Sentenced to die
(d) Incarcerated

4. The first painting that K. examines with his electric torch in the cathedral shows a standard treatment of what scene?
(a) The Entombment of Christ
(b) The Crucifixion of Christ
(c) Moses parting the Red Sea
(d) The Birth of Christ

5. 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) 2
(b) 6
(c) 5
(d) 4

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the character of Dr. Huld described in “His Uncle – Leni”?

2. How has K.’s plight as an individual against society turned out in “The End”?

3. In what ways does K. demonstrate the theme of the individual versus society in The Trial?

4. How is the setting described in the opening of “The End”? Where is K. taken?

5. In what way is K.’s character similar to Job from the Old Testament?

6. What does the character of Titorelli represent symbolically in The Trial?

7. Who does K. meet inside the cathedral in “In the Cathedral”? What does this character relate to K.?

8. How is the character of Titorelli described in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?

9. How is K. first introduced to Herr Block in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?

10. How is the character of Block described in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”? What was his position prior to his trial?

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