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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first book in the courtroom that K. looks at in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” is a book of what?
(a) Clothing advertisements
(b) Household chores
(c) Poetry
(d) Pornography

2. What is the name of the second guard that tells K. that he’s under arrest in “The Arrest”?
(a) Hasterer
(b) Franz
(c) Kaminer
(d) Willem

3. K. hears groans coming from behind a door in his office building that “he had always assumed, without having actually seen it himself, that there was nothing but” what, in “The Thrasher”?
(a) A lumber-room
(b) Stairs to the basement
(c) Stairs to the attic
(d) A chimney exit

4. What woman is accosted in the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?
(a) Fraülein Bürstner
(b) Leni
(c) The Manufacturer’s Wife
(d) The Usher’s Wife

5. What word from “The Thrasher” means to secure or bring about by force?
(a) Impede
(b) Obstruct
(c) Arbitrate
(d) Compel

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What word used in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” refers to a complete change of form, structure, or substance?

3. At what time does K. plan to arrive at the courtroom on the day of his first hearing in “The First Hearing”?

4. What word from “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” means to break away from constituted authority?

5. Of the proceedings against him, K. tells the Examining Magistrate, “[L]et us say I do recognize them, out of” what?

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