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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the guards being thrashed says he has a family to feed in “The Thrasher”?
(a) Franz
(b) Kullych
(c) Rabensteiner
(d) Willem

2. What word used in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” refers to a complete change of form, structure, or substance?
(a) Parity
(b) Stasis
(c) Equipoise
(d) Metamorphosis

3. What is the name of the strange guard that opens K.’s door when he rings for his breakfast in the beginning of “The Arrest”?
(a) Willem
(b) Franz
(c) Kaminer
(d) Kullych

4. 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?
(a) The next Thursday
(b) The next Tuesday
(c) The next Monday
(d) The next Sunday

5. What word from “The First Hearing” refers to a vicious or depraved person?
(a) Abolitionist
(b) Petitioner
(c) Miscreant
(d) Reprimand

6. 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) 2
(b) 10
(c) 5
(d) 3

7. What name, meaning the servants of an army, does K. call the Examining Magistrate and the others of the courtroom as he exits in “The First Hearing”?
(a) Jesters
(b) Rubes
(c) Court-royals
(d) Blackguards

8. The Thrasher tells K. when he discovers him getting ready to beat the guards, “You shouldn’t believe everything they say. Their fear of being beaten has made them a little” what?
(a) Desperate
(b) Incomprehensible
(c) Cowardly
(d) Feeble-minded

9. Where does K. see Rabensteiner and Kullich on his way to the hearing in “The First Hearing”?
(a) On a train
(b) At the library
(c) At a café
(d) On a bus

10. Where does K. see Kaminer on his way to the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?
(a) At the library
(b) On a train
(c) At a café
(d) On a bus

11. What does K. say repeatedly to the woman and man who help him out of the Court Offices in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
(a) Thank you very much
(b) Call the Examining Magistrate
(c) Don’t touch me
(d) I need to see the Usher

12. The young woman in the Court Offices tells K. in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices,” “We, that is the staff here, decided that the information clerk, who is constantly dealing with the public and is their first contact with the court, ought to be given” what?
(a) Good sleeping quarters
(b) Elegant clothes
(c) A telephone
(d) A nice haircut

13. One of the guards being thrashed in “The Thrasher” tells K. that “it’s a tradition that” what “goes to the guards”?
(a) The coffers
(b) The linen
(c) The landlady
(d) Breakfast

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What character is described in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach” as a girl “who worked serving in a wine-bar during the night and well into the morning, and during the daytime only received visitors from her bed”?

2. Which of the guards does the Thrasher say got fat from eating breakfasts at all his arrests in “The Thrasher”?

3. What is the name of the student that the Usher’s Wife says has been pursuing her for some time in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

4. 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”?

5. K. considers the Deputy Manager’s invitation to his party to be what, in “The First Hearing”?

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