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

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. The narrator states in the beginning of “The First Hearing” that “K. had been informed by telephone that a short hearing in his affair would take place” when?
(a) The next Thursday
(b) The next Monday
(c) The next Sunday
(d) The next Tuesday

3. Where does K. see Rabensteiner and Kullich on his way to the hearing in “The First Hearing”?
(a) At the library
(b) On a train
(c) On a bus
(d) At a café

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

5. 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?
(a) At the bar
(b) At the bank
(c) At the hospital
(d) At the courthouse

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from “The First Hearing” refers to a vicious or depraved person?

2. The Deputy Manager invites K. to a party where on the same day as K.’s hearing in the beginning of “The First Hearing”?

3. It is K.’s birthday in the opening of “The Arrest.” How old is K. turning?

4. What is the name of Frau Grubach’s nephew?

5. Where does K. see Kaminer on his way to the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?

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