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

2. What are K.’s final words in “The End”?
(a) Please help
(b) I’m guilty
(c) Like a dog!
(d) I’m innocent

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

4. In Erna’s letter to Uncle Karl, she writes that when she was unable to see K. at the bank, she had to return home because she had what appointment in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) A school exam
(b) A date
(c) A piano lesson
(d) A choir meeting

5. K. asks the two men who appear at his apartment in the beginning of “The End” at which what are they engaged?
(a) Theatre
(b) Mechanic shop
(c) Painter's studio
(d) Court

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time does K. arrive at his office when he is to show the Italian Businessman around the city in “In the Cathedral”?

2. The first painting that K. examines with his electric torch in the cathedral shows a standard treatment of what scene?

3. When he arrives at the cathedral square, K. remembers “that even as a small child it had struck him that the curtains of the houses in the narrow square were nearly always all” what, in “In the Cathedral”?

4. Where do K. and the two strange guards go after departing the city in “The End”?

5. By what nickname does the narrator say K. used to refer to his uncle as in “His Uncle – Leni”?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How are the women in the novel similar to Gatekeepers?

6. How can K.’s character be seen as a reflection of Adam from the Bible in The Trial?

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

8. What does Titorelli explain to K. about the nature of the system in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?

9. How does the author employ the use of shadows and ambiguity in the novel? What does this represent?

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

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