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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The First Hearing.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what method of transportation does K. travel to work in the morning in “The Arrest”?
(a) By train
(b) By taxi
(c) By bicycle
(d) By bus

2. What word refers to a fictional society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening?
(a) Malatopia
(b) Dystopia
(c) Malfunction
(d) Utopia

3. What does K. do before leaving Fraülein Bürstner’s room in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) He kisses her
(b) He spits at her
(c) He slaps her
(d) He shouts angrily at her

4. Of the proceedings against him, K. tells the Examining Magistrate, “[L]et us say I do recognize them, out of” what?
(a) Pity
(b) Fear
(c) Irony
(d) Redemption

5. Where does Frau Grubach say Fraülein Bürstner has gone in the evening when K. returns home in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) To a jazz bar
(b) To her lover’s house
(c) To the theatre
(d) To church

Short Answer Questions

1. What season is described in the opening of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

2. What is Frau Grubach’s relationship to K.?

3. What countries comprised the Central Powers in the beginning of World War I?

4. When K. first deals with the guards on the morning of his birthday in “The Arrest,” he presumes that this might be a joke played on him by his friends where?

5. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “blond with deep-set eyes”?

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