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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does K. recall having said “that the court was attracted by guilt” in “The First Hearing”?
(a) Franz
(b) Dr. Huld
(c) Rabensteiner
(d) Willem

2. What season is described in the opening of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) Spring
(b) Autumn
(c) Winter
(d) Summer

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) Worried sick about it
(c) Deeply troubled by it
(d) Satisfied with it

4. K. points out to Fraülein Bürstner that Frau Grubach is dependent on him for what reason in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) She’s borrowed a large sum of money from him
(b) She is desperate to marry his father
(c) She is his only heir
(d) He was a witness to a crime she committed

5. How many flats does the Usher say the student has been kicked out of in this building for sneaking into them to chase women in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
(a) 10
(b) 5
(c) 3
(d) 2

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose cook is said to bring K. his breakfast around eight every morning in “The Arrest”?

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

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

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. What is written on the piece of paper “in clumsy, childish handwriting” by the stairwell to the loft in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

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