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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. By what nickname does the narrator say K. used to refer to his uncle as in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) The Wandering Gypsy
(b) The Elder from the Mountains
(c) The Ghost from the Country
(d) The Old Man on the Hill

2. The narrator claims in “The End,” “Logic may be unshakeable, but it cannot hold out against a human being who wants” what?
(a) To live
(b) Freedom
(c) Love
(d) To die

3. What season is it in the opening of “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?
(a) Summer
(b) Spring
(c) Autumn
(d) Winter

4. What time does the narrator say it is and describe as “the time when the streets are quiet” in the opening of “The End”?
(a) 9
(b) 12
(c) 11
(d) 10

5. How is the weather described on the day that K. goes to meet the Italian Businessman at the cathedral in “In the Cathedral”?
(a) Snowy
(b) Pleasant
(c) Rainy
(d) Sunny

Short Answer Questions

1. When he arrives at the cathedral square, K. remembers “that even as a small child it had struck him that the curtains of the houses in the narrow square were nearly always all” what, in “In the Cathedral”?

2. By what mode of transportation does K. travel to Titorelli’s home in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?

3. Herr Block says in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer,” “I will remind you of the old axiom: ‘For a suspect, movement is better than staying still, for someone who is still can always, without realizing it, be in the scales and be weighed with’” what?

4. By what method of transportation does K. get to the cathedral in “In the Cathedral”?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the character of Titorelli described in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?

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

4. How is the character of Dr. Huld described in “His Uncle – Leni”?

5. How is the weather described in the opening of “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”? Where is K. located in the beginning of the chapter?

6. How would you characterize the relationship between Block and Dr. Huld in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?

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

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

9. What is K.’s duty with the Italian Businessman in “In the Cathedral”? What does the Italian represent symbolically to K.?

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

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