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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does K. do while listening to Buergel?
(a) He taps his foot incessantly.
(b) He falls asleep.
(c) He paces madly.
(d) He twiddle his thumbs.

2. Who gives Barnabas the letters he is supposed to deliver?
(a) Klamm.
(b) A military officer.
(c) A clerk.
(d) Klamm's private secretary.

3. How do the gentlemen react to the deliveries?
(a) They take the deliveries and then redeliver to someone else.
(b) They fight over the deliveries.
(c) They accept the deliveries with flamboyant thanks.
(d) They try to avoid deliveries to them.

4. What does K. do when he sees Frieda?
(a) Ignores her.
(b) Slaps her face.
(c) Shakes her hand coldly.
(d) Runs to her and embraces her.

5. Why does Hans think his father might be sympathetic toward K.?
(a) Hans' father was once a stranger in the village.
(b) Hans' father wanted to summon a land surveyor.
(c) Hans' father also wants to see Klamm.
(d) Hans' father is a land surveyor like K.

6. Who tells K. that Olga is in love with him?
(a) Olga's father.
(b) Amalia.
(c) Olga.
(d) Olga's mother.

7. What does Frieda say that K. wants from Hans' family?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Money.
(c) A place to stay for free.
(d) Access to the Castle.

8. How long does Barnabas have to wait for the letters he delivers?
(a) Never more than a few minutes.
(b) A long time, sometimes days.
(c) At most, several hours.
(d) Usually a half hour to an hour.

9. What does Jeremias do after hearing the contents of the letter?
(a) Attacks Barnabas.
(b) Takes the letter and tears it up.
(c) Attacks K.
(d) Runs off toward the meeting place.

10. What did Frieda's mother warn her about K.?
(a) That K. was drunken and sullen.
(b) That K. was manipulative and ambitious.
(c) That K. was violent and abusive.
(d) That K. was lazy and stubborn.

11. Who led the family toward Sortini when they saw him approaching?
(a) The mother.
(b) Olga.
(c) The father.
(d) Amalia.

12. What did Sortini order Amalia to do in his letter?
(a) Come to the Gentlemen's Inn.
(b) Come to the Castle.
(c) Meet him in the schoolhouse.
(d) Meet him at the festival.

13. How effective is bribing Castle officials?
(a) Effective, if the bribe is large enough.
(b) Ineffective but tolerated.
(c) Ineffective and usually resulting in criminal prosecution.
(d) Effective, if the bribe is given to the right official.

14. What does Frieda think of K.'s conversation with Hans?
(a) K. was judgemental.
(b) K. was argumentative.
(c) K. was helpful.
(d) K. was deceptive.

15. Where do the letters Barnabas delivers come from?
(a) A machine.
(b) A mysterious unseen person inside an office.
(c) A clerk who writes letters all day.
(d) A stack of old letters.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the landlord react to seeing K. in the corridor at the Gentlemen's Inn?

2. Why does Barnabas want the job of messenger?

3. Why does K. go to see Barnabas in Chapter XV?

4. Where does the letter-writer want to meet K.?

5. What does Buergel talk to K. about?

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