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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In the Cathedral.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does K. say repeatedly to the woman and man who help him out of the Court Offices in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
(a) I need to see the Usher
(b) Don’t touch me
(c) Thank you very much
(d) Call the Examining Magistrate

2. What is the name of the strange guard that opens K.’s door when he rings for his breakfast in the beginning of “The Arrest”?
(a) Willem
(b) Franz
(c) Kaminer
(d) Kullych

3. What do the guards offer to fetch for K. “for a small sum of money” in “The Arrest”?
(a) His landlady
(b) Lunch
(c) His clothing
(d) Breakfast

4. What woman is accosted in the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?
(a) Fraülein Bürstner
(b) The Manufacturer’s Wife
(c) Leni
(d) The Usher’s Wife

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 sheepskin rug
(c) The curtain rods
(d) The dog by his feet

Short Answer Questions

1. What is K. carrying with him when he goes to the cathedral in “In the Cathedral”?

2. Titorelli tells K. in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” that the painting in his apartment is of Justice combined with whom?

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

4. What subordinate bank employee is described in “The Arrest” as having an “intolerable smile caused by a chronic muscular spasm”?

5. What word from “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” means patently evident or certain; unquestionable?

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