Amerika: The Missing Person Test | Final Test - Hard

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Amerika: The Missing Person Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 222 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the landlady so reluctant to give Karl and Robinson breakfast to take back to the apartment?

2. What comic detail is offered about the head porter's appearance?

3. When Karl is in the office and notices that it is a quarter past six, what does he begin to hope will happen?

4. When he is in the office talking with the head waiter and the head porter, what does Karl believe is the cause of most of their accusations against him?

5. What does the word "Occidental" mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Karl's encounter with the policeman in the Ramses suburbs.

2. What does Karl's first sight of Giacomo imply about working conditions in America?

3. How does Therese's backstory support the idea that life for immigrants in America is difficult and somewhat dependent on sheer luck?

4. What two reasons does Robinson have for coming to see Karl?

5. What does Karl learn from Robinson about Brunelda's marriage?

6. How do Delamarche and Robinson persuade Karl to accompany them in the morning?

7. Describe Delamarche and Brunelda's relationship with their neighbors.

8. When Karl is looking through his trunk, what does he realize about the cap he is wearing?

9. How does Karl meet Robinson and Delamarche?

10. What convinces Karl to stay at Brunelda's apartment even after Delamarche assaults him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Karl's trunk represent his ambivalence about his parents, and what role have they played in creating this ambivalence? Write an essay in which you consider the trunk's provenance, its contents, its role in the novel's plot, and what Karl's treatment of the trunk reveals. Offer textual evidence from throughout the novel in support of your assertions.

Essay Topic 2

What does the innocence of wanderers such as Karl and Candide highlight about the nature of the world? In what sense is Karl a "transparent" character because of his innocence? How does this characteristic relate to the idea of the "missing person" mentioned in the book's full title? Write an essay in which you take and defend a position about the significance of Karl's innocence within the travel narrative form of Amerika. Establish and then discuss the significance of Karl's initial innocence, his ability--or inability--to learn from his experiences, and his eventual fate. Support your assertions with evidence from throughout the text, and if you consult outside sources, be sure to credit these in MLA format.

Essay Topic 3

The end of Kafka's novel introduces the Theater of Oklahama--but is there a sense in which the entire novel can be appropriately called "theatrical"? If so, what purpose would this serve? In what ways is Karl like a puppet or actor throughout the novel? In what ways are the other characters often like stock characters in a melodrama? In what way are the settings more like stage sets than like realistic settings? Write an essay in which you consider the novel's theatricality and what relationship this has to the novel's ending. Make sure that as you discuss theatricality in relationship to the novel's ending, you take and defend a clear position regarding whether the Theater of Oklahama has something to do with religion and an afterlife. Support your ideas with textual evidence.

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