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

2. Why does the teacher say the offer is a great favor?
(a) The chairman has never offered anyone a job before.
(b) The position was going to be given to the chairman's brother.
(c) The position is unnecessary.
(d) The offer was especially requested by Klamm.

3. How does K. get back to the inn?
(a) On a bicycle.
(b) On a horse.
(c) On foot.
(d) In a sleigh.

4. What does Frieda refer to the assistants as?
(a) Klamm's misfits.
(b) Klamm's missionaries.
(c) Klamm's entourage.
(d) Klamm's emissaries.

5. What does K. tell Frieda's mother he wants to see Klamm for?
(a) K. wants to challenge Klamm to a duel over Frieda's affections.
(b) K. wants Klamm's permission to go to the Castle.
(c) K. wants to make sure Klamm has no hard feelings about K. marrying Frieda.
(d) K. wants to know when the Count will come see him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Frieda say the assistants really want?

3. How does the teacher characterize the chairman in the conversation?

4. What is Frieda's job at the taproom?

5. What is Barnabas' role, according to the letter from K.'s director?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does K. discover that Klamm is staying at the Gentlemen's Inn?

3. What impression does Frieda make when K. first meets her?

4. What does K. praise Frieda for?

5. What does Klamm look like?

6. How does the chairman's wife act during K.'s visit?

7. What message does K. send through Barnabas to Klamm?

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

9. How does K. feel when he goes to see the village chairman?

10. What does the gentleman who comes to the coach while K. is there waiting want?

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