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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is K.’s response when Titorelli asks him in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter,” “Are you innocent?”
(a) I don't know
(b) Yes
(c) That depends
(d) No

2. Titorelli tells K. in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” that the painting in his apartment is of Justice combined with whom?
(a) The Goddess of Death
(b) The Goddess of Fertility
(c) The Goddess of Revenge
(d) The Goddess of Victory

3. The Manufacturer tells K. in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” that he heard about K.’s trial from Titorelli. What is Titorelli’s profession?
(a) He is a lawyer
(b) He is a judge
(c) He is a painter
(d) He is a court usher

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

5. The narrator says in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” that when K. visits Herr Huld, Huld’s maid always makes a point of doing what?
(a) Massaging Huld’s shoulders
(b) Bringing Huld’s tea
(c) Bringing Huld’s dinner
(d) Bringing Huld’s medicine

6. What word from “The End” means highly offensive or hateful?
(a) Adulatory
(b) Mischievous
(c) Apprehensive
(d) Odious

7. How many unregistered lawyers does Herr Block say he has working on his case in addition to Herr Huld in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 6
(d) 4

8. 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 run
(c) Take it and stab himself
(d) Take it and throw it into the fire

9. What is Herr Block’s first name?
(a) Rudi
(b) Willem
(c) Peter
(d) Franz

10. 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) Roaches
(c) Flies
(d) Bats

11. At what time does the priest begin ascending the pulpit presumably to give a sermon in “In the Cathedral”?
(a) 11
(b) 4
(c) 12
(d) 1

12. 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 dozen roses
(c) A box of chocolates
(d) Silk stockings

13. What word does the Manufacturer use to describe Titorelli that means excessively talkative or rambling?
(a) Existentialist
(b) Garrulous
(c) Obtuse
(d) Contrary

14. The first painting that K. examines with his electric torch in the cathedral shows a standard treatment of what scene?
(a) The Entombment of Christ
(b) The Birth of Christ
(c) The Crucifixion of Christ
(d) Moses parting the Red Sea

15. The Priest tells K. in “In the Cathedral” that he also works as what?
(a) An advisor to the president
(b) An armed guard
(c) A volunteer firefighter
(d) A prison chaplain

Short Answer Questions

1. Describing his early submissions in his trial, Herr Block tells K. that much of it was written in what language in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?

2. What word from “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” means to clear of an accusation?

3. How is the knife described that the strange guard takes out of a sheath on his waist-coat in “The End”?

4. 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?

5. What does one of the guards do to K. after they’ve stopped and rested outside the city in “The End”?

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