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

2. In the letter from Erna to Uncle Karl, she writes that she visited K. at the bank but wasn’t allowed to see him because he was busy. How long does Erna say she waited?
(a) Almost two hours
(b) Almost a whole day
(c) Three hours
(d) Almost an hour

3. 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) Bringing Huld’s medicine
(c) Bringing Huld’s dinner
(d) Massaging Huld’s shoulders

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

5. In the end of “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer,” Leni tells Block to leave what alone and listen to the lawyer?
(a) The handkerchief
(b) The curtain rods
(c) The dog by his feet
(d) The sheepskin rug

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Herr Huld’s maid tell K. is the only way of escaping the legal problems K. is facing in “His Uncle – Leni”?

2. How is the weather described on the day that K. goes to meet the Italian Businessman at the cathedral in “In the Cathedral”?

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?

4. 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?

5. How does Titorelli say he came to his position with the courts in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Block explain the predominance of superstition amongst the defendants in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?

2. How does the parable from “In the Cathedral” relate to the story as a whole?

3. What does Block tell K. about his impressions on the defendants in the Court Offices in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?

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

5. How is the lighting inside the cathedral described in “In the Cathedral”? What does this represent?

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

7. What does Uncle Karl relate to K. about his actions and their reflection on the family in “His Uncle – Leni”?

8. How does the ambiguous court system in The Trial relate to the historical context of anti-Semitism?

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

10. What is K. supposed to do with the butcher knife in “The End”? What does he do instead?

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