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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through His Uncle - Leni.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What season is described in the opening of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) Winter
(b) Autumn
(c) Summer
(d) Spring

2. To whom does K. say in “The Thrasher,” “It’s about time you cleared out that lumber-room. We’re drowning in filth”?
(a) The Usher.
(b) The Examining Magistrate
(c) The messengers
(d) The Usher’s Wife

3. What word from “The First Hearing” refers to a vicious or depraved person?
(a) Abolitionist
(b) Reprimand
(c) Miscreant
(d) Petitioner

4. By what nickname does the narrator say K. used to refer to his uncle as in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) The Old Man on the Hill
(b) The Ghost from the Country
(c) The Elder from the Mountains
(d) The Wandering Gypsy

5. Whose claim that his fiancée is waiting for him outside turns out to be a lie in “The Thrasher”?
(a) Kullych’s
(b) Titorelli’s
(c) Franz’s
(d) Willem’s

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does K. recall having said “that the court was attracted by guilt” in “The First Hearing”?

2. What word refers to a fictional society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening?

3. To whom does the Usher’s Wife say the books in the courtroom belong to in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

4. Where does K. see Rabensteiner and Kullich on his way to the hearing in “The First Hearing”?

5. The second book that K. examines in the courtroom in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” is a novel titled what?

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