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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 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”?
(a) Fraülein Bürstner
(b) Frau Grubach
(c) Leni
(d) Elsa

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

3. What do the guards offer to fetch for K. “for a small sum of money” in “The Arrest”?
(a) His clothing
(b) His landlady
(c) Lunch
(d) Breakfast

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is K.’s position at the bank where he works in the novel?

2. What woman is accosted in the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?

3. 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?

4. When does the Examining Magistrate in the courtroom say K. should have been there when K. arrives in “The First Hearing”?

5. 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”?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the setting of The Trial. How does the author establish the setting in “The Arrest”?

2. How is the character of Willem described n “The Arrest”? How does he compare to Franz?

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

4. What relationship to the legal system does Fraülein Bürstner say she has in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

5. What response does K. receive when he asks the three men in the lumber-room, “What are you doing here” in “The Thrasher”?

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

7. What is K.’s reaction to the invitation given him by the Deputy Manager in “The First Hearing”?

8. How is the character of Franz introduced in “The Arrest”? What is Franz’s assessment of K.?

9. What does Willem say of his and Franz’s careers prior to K.’s accusations in “The Thrasher”?

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

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