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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 do the two guards do with K.’s breakfast when it arrives in “The Arrest”?
(a) They give it to K
(b) They send it back
(c) They eat it
(d) They throw it out the window

2. What is the name of the strange guard that opens K.’s door when he rings for his breakfast in the beginning of “The Arrest”?
(a) Kaminer
(b) Kullych
(c) Franz
(d) Willem

3. When K. leaves Fräulein Bürstner’s room at the end of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach,” he thinks “for a while about the way he had behaved; he was” what?
(a) Uncomfortable but serene
(b) Satisfied with it
(c) Deeply troubled by it
(d) Worried sick about it

4. What subordinate bank employee is described in “The Arrest” as having an “intolerable smile caused by a chronic muscular spasm”?
(a) Kaminer
(b) Willem
(c) Franz
(d) Kullych

5. It is K.’s birthday in the opening of “The Arrest.” How old is K. turning?
(a) 32
(b) 31
(c) 28
(d) 30

Short Answer Questions

1. What does K. do before leaving Fraülein Bürstner’s room in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

2. What is the name of the man from the state prosecution office that K. tells the supervisor is his friend in “The Arrest”?

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

4. What is K.’s position at the bank where he works in the novel?

5. The supervisor who enters K.’s home after the guards in “The Arrest” tells him, “Think less about us and what is going to happen to you, think more about” what?

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