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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 does the chairman say about the Castle's phone system?
(a) That it's never working.
(b) That it's the most reliable part of the Castle bureaucracy.
(c) That it's antiquated but effective.
(d) That it's a joke.

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

3. What answer does K. get when he calls the Castle himself for permission to visit?
(a) He is told no.
(b) He is told he must wait three days.
(c) He is told he must fill out the right forms.
(d) He is told he can come at once.

4. What does K. hope to ask Klamm for, when he meets with him?
(a) Favors.
(b) A permanent surveyor job.
(c) Frieda's hand in marriage.
(d) A job in the Castle.

5. What does Frieda want K. to do about the job offer?
(a) She wants him to negotiate for a higher position.
(b) She wants him to negotiate for time off to be with her.
(c) She wants him to reject the job.
(d) She wants him to take the job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frieda ask K. to do?

2. How does the landlady say she feels about K. staying at the inn?

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

4. What answer do K.'s assistants get when they call the Castle for permission to visit?

5. When K. returns to the inn after meeting with the chairman, what does the landlord ask him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the coachman tell K. about Klamm's arrival at the coach?

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

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

6. What does K. praise Frieda for?

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

8. What does K. do to get fuel for a fire?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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