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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What photo does the landlady show K.?
(a) A photo of a messenger Klamm sent to her long ago.
(b) A photo of her husband as a young man.
(c) A photo of Frieda as a young girl.
(d) A photo of herself as a young girl.

2. Why does the landlady say that Frieda never received gifts from Klamm?
(a) She is not a good enough mistress to deserve gifts.
(b) She never asked for any gifts.
(c) Klamm only gives one gift to a mistress, when she leaves him.
(d) Klamm never gives gifts to his mistresses.

3. What does Frieda's mother say that Klamm thinks about K.?
(a) Klamm thinks K. is amuzing and ineffectual.
(b) Klamm is watching what K. does carefully and judging him.
(c) Klamm doesn't care about K. at all.
(d) Klamm admires K. and might be disappointed by him.

4. When K. lights a match, who does he startle?
(a) Olga.
(b) Frieda.
(c) Artur.
(d) Pepi.

5. What do the assistants do when K. makes them leave?
(a) Leave quietly.
(b) Pull down the curtains and break lamps as they leave.
(c) Bang at the windows and doors.
(d) Bring drums and trumpets to make noise outside the window.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are K. and his assistants living at the beginning of Chapter XI?

2. What answer does K. get when he calls the Castle himself for permission to visit?

3. How likely does Frieda's mother say it is for K. to see Klamm?

4. Where do Frieda and K. make love?

5. What does Frieda refer to the assistants as?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason does the teacher give that the chairman wants to help K.?

2. What does Klamm write about K.'s assistants, and how does this compare to the reality of K.'s assistants' roles?

3. What use does Frieda think the position offered to K. might serve?

4. What does K. suspect about Frieda, at the end of Chapter XII?

5. What does K. believe is the reason that Hans and his family never received favors from Klamm?

6. What happens between K. and the assistants after Frieda gets up in the middle of the night at the school?

7. What does K. ask Frieda about when he first meets her?

8. How does the chairman characterize the Castle's bureaucracy?

9. What is K.'s attitude toward the gentleman in Chapter IX?

10. What does K. call Artur and Jeremias and why?

(see the answer keys)

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