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Spring 2024- Semester Review

Quiz by Selina Lopez

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  • Q1
    1. In “The Metamorphosis,” how does Gregor first react when he discovers that he has become an insect?
    a. He is shocked and terrified and calls on his family for help.
    d. He is relieved that he will no longer have to work as a traveling salesman
    b. He refuses to leave his room or to talk to anyone about his problem.
    c. He determines to continue with his normal work and family relationships.
    30s
  • Q2
    2. In “The Metamorphosis,” what is the most important reason in Gregor’s mind for holding onto his job as a traveling salesman?
    a. He enjoys his job and is well liked and respected at work.
    b. He feels responsible for the financial support of his family.
    d. He wants to prove that he can become a human being again.
    c. He believes that he is just imagining that he is an insect.
    30s
  • Q3
    3. Which of the following sentences most accurately describes Grete’s attitude toward her brother, Gregor, in “The Metamorphosis”?
    b. She cares for him at first just to please her mother and father, but her dislike for him grows each day.
    c. She feels genuine affection for him and never gives up on him, regardless of his bad behavior.
    a. She is sympathetic and caring at first, but as her life gets more difficult, she blames him for the family’s problems.
    d. She is horrified by the change in him and develops a hatred for him because of his ugliness.
    30s
  • Q4
    4. How do the family members in “The Metamorphosis” justify their decision to get rid of the insect?
    c. They are afraid that the insect will try to kill them.
    a. They believe that if they do so, Gregor will return.
    d. They can no longer afford to feed the insect.
    b. They convince themselves that the insect is not Gregor.
    30s
  • Q5
    5. Which of the following people would be most likely to act listlessly? Base your answer on the meaning of listlessly.
    b. people who are committing a serious crime
    a. people who are reporting a shocking event
    d. people who are overworked and exhausted
    c. people who are unsure of their sense of balance
    30s
  • Q6
    6. Which of the following situations could best be used to illustrate the meaning of amelioration? Base your answer on the meaning of amelioration.
    a. a blow to the head of a falling person
    d. a change of scenery for a confused person
    b. a look in the mirror by an angry person
    c. a cold drink of water for a thirsty person
    30s
  • Q7
    7. What is the most likely meaning of asphyxiation in the following sentence? "When Donald choked on a piece of apple, he almost died of asphyxiation."
    a. a clot in a blood vessel
    b. an inability to breathe
    c. food poisoning
    d. heart disease
    30s
  • Q8
    8. In the opening scene of “The Metamorphosis,” what do Gregor’s thoughts and long speeches reveal most clearly about his personality?
    c. He is indecisive and tends to overthink his actions.
    a. He is self-reliant and resents others telling him what to do.
    d. He is proud of his job and very successful at it.
    b. He is careful and methodical about everything he does.
    30s
  • Q9
    9. Part A: In “The Metamorphosis,” as his life as an insect continues, Gregor begins to lose interest in living. Which of these events most directly leads to Gregor’s giving up on life?
    a. Gregor discovers that other people cannot understand his speech.
    b. His angry father treats him like a menace and throws apples at him.
    c. His parents treat the lodgers with more concern than they have for Gregor, though he is their son.
    d. Grete protests that his presence is making the family’s life intolerable, and he sees he must go.
    30s
  • Q10
    9. Part B: Which quotation from “The Metamorphosis” best supports the answer to Part A?
    d. He remembered his family with deep feeling and love. In this business, his own thought that he had to disappear was, if possible, even more decisive than his sister’s.
    c. He was filled with sheer anger over the wretched care he was getting....Without thinking any more about how one might be able to give Gregor special pleasure, the sister now kicked some food or other very quickly into his room.
    a. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him. ... But at least people now thought that things were not all right with him and were prepared to help him. member of the family, something one should not treat as an enemy.
    b. Gregor’s serious wound ... (since no one ventured to remove the apple), seemed by itself to have reminded the father that ... Gregor was a
    30s
  • Q11
    10. Part A: In “The Metamorphosis,” how do Gregor’s parents and sister react to the family’s loss of Gregor’s earnings?
    c. They become determined and self-reliant instead of allowing a difficult situation to defeat them.
    b. They have no idea about what to do with their lives without Gregor to support and guide them.
    d. They are too snobbish to adjust to poverty, so they seek someone to support them as Gregor once did.
    a. They are relieved at the thought that they no longer have to be in debt to Gregor.
    30s
  • Q12
    10. Part B: Which quotation from the text best supports the answer to Part A?
    d. “We must try to get rid of it,” the sister now said decisively to the father, for the mother, in her coughing fit, wasn’t listening to anything. “It is killing you both. I see it coming. When people work as hard as we all do, they cannot also tolerate this endless torment at home. I just can’t go on any more.”
    a. Bent far over, the mother sewed fine undergarments for a fashion shop. The sister, who had taken on a job as a salesgirl, in the evening studied stenography and French, so as perhaps later to obtain a better position.
    b. ... the main thing holding the family back from a change in living quarters was far more their complete hopelessness and the idea that they had been struck by a misfortune like no one else in their entire circle of relatives and acquaintances.
    c. In any case, no one paid [Gregor] any attention. The family was all caught up in the violin playing.
    30s
  • Q13
    11. What is the primary theme of "The Metamorphosis"?
    c) Love
    a) Freedom
    b) Alienation
    d) War
    30s
  • Q14
    12. What is Gregor Samsa's occupation before his transformation?
    d) Lawyer
    a) Salesman
    b) Teacher
    c) Factory worker
    30s
  • Q15
    13. Which item in Gregor's room does he feel most attached to after his transformation?
    d) His bookshelf
    c) His desk
    b) A photograph of a woman in fur
    a) His bed
    30s

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