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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. 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 fond of me
(b) Eat this soup
(c) Be free
(d) Marry me

2. 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) 15
(c) 10
(d) 20

3. What object does Herr Huld’s maid give to K. so that he can return and visit her in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) Her telephone number
(b) A door key
(c) Her private address
(d) A map to her room

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. It’s after what time when K. rings on Herr Huld’s door in the beginning of “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?

3. Of K., the narrator says in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter,” “For once the court was going to find itself confronted by a defendant who knew how to” what?

4. 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?

5. The Priest tells K. in “In the Cathedral” that he also works as what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What element of symbolism in The Trial connects K. to the theme of “Original Sin”?

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

7. 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”?

8. What is K. contemplating in the opening of “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?

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

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

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