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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The judge who Herr Huld spoke to about Block said of Block in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer,” “Block’s just cunning. He’s gathered a lot of experience and knows how to” what?
(a) Ask the right questions
(b) Hire the right lawyers
(c) Shorten the trial
(d) Draw out the trial

2. One of the guards being thrashed in “The Thrasher” says that he and his partner had prospects of being promoted to what position before getting into trouble?
(a) Court Ushers
(b) Jury Members
(c) Thrashers
(d) Examining Magistrates

3. How many messengers are said to still be “working in dispatch in the little circle from a lamp” at K.’s offices in the beginning of “The Thrasher” as he leaves work?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 5
(d) 4

4. The woman who moves in with Fraülein Bürstner holds what profession?
(a) She is a banker
(b) She is a lawyer
(c) She is a secretary
(d) She is a teacher

5. What is Frau Grubach’s relationship to K.?
(a) She is his mother
(b) She is his landlady
(c) She is his niece
(d) She is his aunt

Short Answer Questions

1. By what method of transportation does K. travel to work in the morning in “The Arrest”?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. What word from “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” refers to a person engaged in a lawsuit?

5. The narrator says in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” that “the hierarchy and upper echelons of the court were” what?

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