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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When does Fraülein Bürstner say she’s starting work as a secretary at a lawyer’s office when speaking with K. in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) Next month
(b) Next week
(c) Next year
(d) Tomorrow

3. The Examining Magistrate asks K. if he is what when he begins questioning him in “The First Hearing”?
(a) A painter and decorator
(b) A cab driver and mechanic
(c) A teacher and scholar
(d) A bus driver and teacher

4. K. tells the guards who are to be thrashed in “The Thrasher,” “I didn’t complain, I just said what had happened in my apartment. And your behavior wasn’t exactly” what?
(a) Irreproachable either
(b) Empathetic either
(c) Commendable either
(d) Piteous either

5. What word from “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” means to break away from constituted authority?
(a) Revolt
(b) Apparition
(c) Constituency
(d) Denial

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

7. Whose claim that his fiancée is waiting for him outside turns out to be a lie in “The Thrasher”?
(a) Willem’s
(b) Kullych’s
(c) Titorelli’s
(d) Franz’s

8. When did World War I begin?
(a) January 16, 1912
(b) July 28, 1914
(c) June 30, 1915
(d) September 2, 1911

9. 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) White
(b) Black
(c) Blue
(d) Gray

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

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

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

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

14. Which of the guards comes to K. and says, “If you can’t get both of us spared, then at least try to get him to let me go” in “The Thrasher”?
(a) Willem
(b) Rabensteiner
(c) Kullych
(d) Franz

15. 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 dresses
(b) Her photographs
(c) Her pillows
(d) Her carpets

Short Answer Questions

1. The Usher tells K. as they pass through the waiting room of the Court Offices in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices,” “Most of the defendants are very” what?

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

3. What word from “The First Hearing” refers to a child’s apron or woman’s sleeveless garment worn over a dress?

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”?

5. The Deputy Manager invites K. to a party where on the same day as K.’s hearing in the beginning of “The First Hearing”?

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