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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what day of the week does K. return to the courtroom in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
(a) Saturday
(b) Tuesday
(c) Thursday
(d) Sunday

2. What word from “The Thrasher” refers to a dishonest, knavish person?
(a) Protagonist
(b) Conquistador
(c) Hector
(d) Rogue

3. What does K. drink shots of from his wall cabinet while the guards watch him in the beginning of “The Arrest”?
(a) Whiskey
(b) Schnapps
(c) Gin
(d) Vodka

4. To whom does the Usher’s Wife say the books in the courtroom belong to in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
(a) The Chief Clerk
(b) The High Priest
(c) The Examining Magistrate
(d) The Usher

5. Speaking to the Usher’s Wife, K. tells her, “You could tell the examining magistrate, or anyone else who likes spreading important news, that none of the many tricks these gentlemen presumably have up their sleeves will ever persuade me to” what?
(a) Confess
(b) Offer a bribe
(c) Run from the law
(d) Plead Innocent

6. Who moves into Fraülein Bürstner’s room with her in the course of the novel?
(a) Frau Grubach
(b) Rabensteiner
(c) Fraülein Montag
(d) The Manufacturer

7. 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”?
(a) Gray
(b) Black
(c) White
(d) Blue

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

9. Where does Fraülein Bürstner say Frau Grubach’s nephew is sleeping in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) In the basement
(b) In the adjoining bedroom
(c) In the kitchen
(d) In the living room

10. By what method of transportation does K. travel to work in the morning in “The Arrest”?
(a) By taxi
(b) By train
(c) By bicycle
(d) By bus

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

12. 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) 5
(b) 4
(c) 3
(d) 2

13. 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 Monday
(b) The next Tuesday
(c) The next Sunday
(d) The next Thursday

14. When Fraülein Bürstner looks around her room for any signs of disorder after returning home, she remarks that what “have been messed up” in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) Her carpets
(b) Her pillows
(c) Her dresses
(d) Her photographs

15. 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) A nice haircut
(b) Elegant clothes
(c) Good sleeping quarters
(d) A telephone

Short Answer Questions

1. On what street is K.’s courtroom said to be located in “The First Hearing”?

2. In the ending of “The Thrasher,” K. waits to ensure he’s alone as he leaves his office, then goes home “weary and his mind” what?

3. The guards tell K. that they are hired to stand guard of him in his apartment how many hours a day in “The Arrest”?

4. 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”?

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

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