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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. What does one of the guards do to K. after they’ve stopped and rested outside the city in “The End”?
2. 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”?
3. Where does Uncle Karl know Huld from?
4. 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?
5. Herr Huld tells K. in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer” that his maid finds almost all of whom attractive?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the parable from “In the Cathedral” relate to the story as a whole?
2. How does the author employ the use of shadows and ambiguity in the novel? What does this represent?
3. How are the women in the novel similar to Gatekeepers?
4. How has K.’s plight as an individual against society turned out in “The End”?
5. How is the character of Dr. Huld described in “His Uncle – Leni”?
6. How does Block explain the predominance of superstition amongst the defendants in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?
7. How is K. first introduced to Herr Block in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?
8. What is represented metaphorically in the scene between K., the Bank President, and the Italian Businessman in “In the Cathedral”?
9. What does Titorelli explain to K. about the nature of the system in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?
10. What element of symbolism in The Trial connects K. to the theme of “Original Sin”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the characters of Franz and Willem in the novel. Why does K. attempt to save Franz and Willem from the Thrasher? How have the demeanors of these characters changed since their initial introduction in “The Arrest”? Why?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze K.’s objectives and obstacles when he commits to the action of kissing Fraülein Bürstner in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach.” What does K. hope to achieve through this action? Is he successful? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the character of Titorelli in the novel. How does Titorelli regard K. when he arrives? What questions does he ask? What are K.’s impressions of the painter? What does Titorelli represent symbolically in the story?
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