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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “blond with deep-set eyes”?
(a) Rabensteiner
(b) Willem
(c) Franz
(d) Kullich

2. What do the guards offer to fetch for K. “for a small sum of money” in “The Arrest”?
(a) Breakfast
(b) Lunch
(c) His landlady
(d) His clothing

3. What is K.’s position at the bank where he works in the novel?
(a) Vice-President
(b) President
(c) Chief Financial Officer
(d) Morning desk clerk

4. At what time does Fraülein Bürstner return home in the evening as K. waits for her arrival in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) 1:30
(b) 11:30
(c) 11:00
(d) 12:00

5. K. decides when looking for the courtroom in “The First Hearing” to ask around for a carpenter named what?
(a) Willem
(b) Lanz.
(c) Huld
(d) Titorelli

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Frau Grubach say Fraülein Bürstner has gone in the evening when K. returns home in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

3. 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?

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?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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