The Metamorphosis Quiz

In “The Metamorphosis,” what is the most important reason in Gregor’s mind for holding onto his job as a traveling salesman?

• He enjoys his job and is well liked and respected at work.

• He feels responsible for the financial support of his family.

• He believes that he is just imagining that he is an insect.

• He wants to prove that he can become a human being again.

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Which of the following sentences most accurately describes Grete’s attitude toward her brother, Gregor, in “The Metamorphosis”?

• She is sympathetic and caring at first, but as her life gets more difficult, she blames him for the family’s problems.

• She cares for him at first just to please her mother and father, but her dislike for him grows each day.

• She feels genuine affection for him and never gives up on him, regardless of his bad behavior.

• She is horrified by the change in him and develops a hatred for him because of his ugliness.

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How do the family members in “The Metamorphosis” justify their decision to get rid of the insect?

• They believe that if they do so, Gregor will return.

• They convince themselves that the insect is not Gregor.

• They are afraid that the insect will try to kill them.

• They can no longer afford to feed the insect.

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Which of the following people would be most likely to act listlessly? Base your answer on the meaning of listlessly.

• people who are reporting a shocking event

• people who are committing a serious crime

• people who are unsure of their sense of balance

• people who are overworked and exhausted

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Which of the following situations could best be used to illustrate the meaning of amelioration? Base your answer on the meaning of amelioration.

• a blow to the head of a falling person

• a look in the mirror to an angry person

• a cold drink of water to a thirsty person

• a change of scenery to a confused person

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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 clot in a blood vessel

• an inability to breathe

• food poisoning

• heart disease

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In "The Metamorphosis," as his life as an insect continues, Gregor begins to lose interest in living. Which of these events most significantly leads to Gregor’s deterioration?

• Gregor discovers that other people cannot understand his speech.

• His angry father treats him like a menace and throws apples at him.

• His parents treat the lodgers with more concern than they have for Gregor.

• Grete no longer shows compassion for him and treats him with indifference.

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Which quotation from "The Metamorphosis" best supports the answer to Part 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.

• Gregor’s serious wound … (since no one ventured to remove the apple), seemed by itself to have reminded the father that … Gregor was a member of the family, something one should not treat as an enemy.

• 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.

• Because the lodgers sometimes also took their evening meal at home in the common living room, the door to the living room stayed shut on many evenings. But Gregor had no trouble at all going without the open door.

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In "The Metamorphosis," Gregor's parents and sister eventually are able to make their own living without Gregor's earnings. What do their efforts reveal about them?

• They are relieved at the thought that they no longer have to be in debt to Gregor.

• They have no idea about what to do with their lives without Gregor to support and guide them.

• They become determined and self-reliant instead of allowing a difficult situation to defeat them.

• They are too snobbish to adjust to poverty, so they seek someone to support them as Gregor once did.

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Which quotation from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

• But now he [the father] was standing up really straight, dressed in a tight fitting blue uniform with gold buttons, ... like the one servants wear in a banking company ... 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.

• ... 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.

• What the world demands of poor people they now carried out to an extreme degree. The father brought breakfast to the petty officials at the bank, the mother sacrificed herself for the undergarments of strangers, the sister behind her desk was at the beck and call of customers, but the family's energies did not extend any further.

• "We must try to get rid of it," the sister now said decisively to the father, for the mother ... wasn't listening to anything. "It is killing you both. I see it coming. When people work as hard as we do, they cannot also tolerate this endless torment at home. I just can't go on any more."

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