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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 the theatre
(c) To church
(d) To her lover’s house

2. At what time does K. plan to arrive at the courtroom on the day of his first hearing in “The First Hearing”?
(a) 6
(b) 7
(c) 8
(d) 9

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

4. When he goes to demonstrate what happened this morning for Fraülein Bürstner in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach,” K. notes that what was hanging by the window in her room at the time of the inquiry?
(a) A blouse
(b) A coat
(c) A curtain
(d) A hat

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Examining Magistrate asks K. if he is what when he begins questioning him in “The First Hearing”?

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?

4. When K. is met by scowling children on his way up the stairs to the courtroom in “The First Hearing,” he thinks to himself, “If I have to come here again, I’ll either have to bring some sweets, to win them over, or” what?

5. The guards at K.’s house tell him that his jacket for the meeting with the supervisor must be what color in the beginning of “The Arrest”?

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