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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the two guards do with K.’s breakfast when it arrives in “The Arrest”?
(a) They give it to K
(b) They send it back
(c) They eat it
(d) They throw it out the window

2. 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) Blackguards
(b) Rubes
(c) Court-royals
(d) Jesters

3. 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) Commendable either
(b) Empathetic either
(c) Piteous either
(d) Irreproachable either

4. 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 bus driver and teacher
(d) A teacher and scholar

5. K. points out to Fraülein Bürstner that Frau Grubach is dependent on him for what reason in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) He was a witness to a crime she committed
(b) She’s borrowed a large sum of money from him
(c) She is his only heir
(d) She is desperate to marry his father

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Fraülein Bürstner say Frau Grubach’s nephew is sleeping in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

2. The narrator describes K. as generally staying at the office until what time in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

3. 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?

4. 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”?

5. 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”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the character of Frau Grubach introduced in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

2. What does Franz say when he grovels to K. for help in “The Thrasher”?

3. Where do Franz and Willem take K. in “The Arrest”? Why?

4. What information has K. learned about his coming hearing in the opening of “The First Hearing”? How did he gain this information?

5. What noise does K. hear as he prepares to exit the office at the bank in “The Thrasher”?

6. How are the Examining Magistrate’s books described in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”? What happens to the Usher’s Wife in the chapter?

7. How is the weather described on the day K. goes to find the courthouse in “The First Hearing”? How is K.’s demeanor?

8. Where does the Usher lead K. in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”? How is this setting described?

9. How is the atmosphere of the setting described in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

10. How is K.’s resistance to the system perceived in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

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