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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. 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?
(a) The nose
(b) The eyes
(c) The lips
(d) The ears

2. Titorelli tells K. in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” that if it weren’t for what, he’d have left this studio long ago?
(a) The fact that it allows pets
(b) The fact that it’s free
(c) The fact that it is his father’s
(d) The fact that it’s close to the courthouse

3. By what name does Uncle Karl introduce himself to Herr Huld when he and K. arrive at Huld’s home in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) Albert
(b) Bertold
(c) James
(d) Roger

4. Herr Block tells K. after the maid’s disappearance that she’s probably in the kitchen making what for Herr Huld in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?
(a) Chicken
(b) Tea
(c) Cake
(d) Soup

5. What word from “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer” means characterized by sickly sentimentality?
(a) Corrupt
(b) Mawkish
(c) Conciliatory
(d) Petulant

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Herr Block’s first name?

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

3. 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?

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

5. Where is K. stabbed with the knife in “The End”?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. 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”?

5. What is Uncle Karl’s attitude when he arrives at the bank in “His Uncle – Leni”?

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

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

8. How is the character of Leni described in “His Uncle – Leni”?

9. Who does K. meet with in his office in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”? What does this character give to K.?

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

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