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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 time does the narrator say it is and describe as “the time when the streets are quiet” in the opening of “The End”?
2. Describing Block, Herr Huld says in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer,” “True, as a person he’s unpleasant, has no manners and is grubby, but as far as his trial’s concerned, he’s” what?
3. What is K.’s head placed on by the strange guards in “The End”?
4. What part of Italy does the narrator say the Italian Businessman is from in “In the Cathedral”?
5. Titorelli tells K. in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” that the painting in his apartment is of Justice combined with whom?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the character of Titorelli represent symbolically in The Trial?
2. What is K. supposed to do with the butcher knife in “The End”? What does he do instead?
3. How would you characterize the relationship between Block and Dr. Huld in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?
4. How is K. first introduced to Herr Block in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?
5. In what way is K.’s character similar to Job from the Old Testament?
6. How is the character of Block described in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”? What was his position prior to his trial?
7. How is the character of Dr. Huld described in “His Uncle – Leni”?
8. How does the author employ the use of shadows and ambiguity in the novel? What does this represent?
9. Who does K. meet inside the cathedral in “In the Cathedral”? What does this character relate to K.?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the setting established in “The Arrest.” How large is the boarding house where K. lives with Frau Grubach and others? What part of town is the boarding house located in? How far away is the bank where K. works?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze and discuss the character of Josef K. as the protagonist of The Trial. What was K.’s life like prior to the arrival of the guards that appear in “The Arrest”? What is K.’s position within his society? What do you find to be K.’s “fatal flaw” in the story?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss the existentialist, absurdist, surrealist, and experimental modernist movements of literature. How do critics and scholars define the style of Kafka’s works? What different genres comprise Kafka’s body of works? What elements of these literary styles can be seen in The Trial?
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