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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 K. say about Olga's attractiveness?
(a) She is pretty but not friendly.
(b) She is neither pretty nor friendly.
(c) She is both pretty and friendly.
(d) She is friendly but not pretty.

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

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

4. What does K. see being delivered in the Gentlemen's Inn, as the morning approaches?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Books.
(c) Breakfast.
(d) Files.

5. Does Olga think her family could have restored their position in the village?
(a) Yes, if they had tried to get in the village's good graces.
(b) No, because of Sortini's high position.
(c) Yes, if the Castle had intervened
(d) No, because of the particularly wrong they committed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who knocks on K.'s door at the beginning of Chapter XIII?

2. What does K. say about the schoolteacher scolding him?

3. What does Frieda think of K.'s conversation with Hans?

4. How long does Barnabas have to wait for the letters he delivers?

5. Where does Olga make the contacts that eventually get Barnabas his job with the Castle?

Short Essay Questions

1. At what event does Amalia's family's disgrace begin?

2. How does K. answer Frieda's mother's objections about him?

3. What did the townspeople do after Amalia's disobedience became known?

4. What happens to Jeremias and Artur when they are not together?

5. What reason does Amalia give K. that he will have to come visit them more often?

6. What did Olga do to try to remove her family's disgrace?

7. How does K. respond to what Barnabas tells him about the Castle?

8. What did Sortini do when Amalia's family approached him?

9. What does K. hope that Barnabas' good news was?

10. What does Amalia accuse K. of using Barnabas for?

(see the answer keys)

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