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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does K. say about Olga's attractiveness?
(a) She is neither pretty nor friendly.
(b) She is friendly but not pretty.
(c) She is pretty but not friendly.
(d) She is both pretty and friendly.

2. Where does the letter-writer want to meet K.?
(a) At the Bridge Inn.
(b) At the schoolhouse.
(c) In the Gentlemen's Inn.
(d) At the Castle gates.

3. Who does K. say he might be able to help medically?
(a) The landlord.
(b) The assistants.
(c) Klamm.
(d) Hans' mother.

4. What is Frieda doing when K. returns to the schoolhouse in Chapter XV?
(a) Sorting the library books.
(b) Bathing a cat.
(c) Mopping the floors.
(d) Telling stories to the children.

5. Who does K. intend to use his weapon against when he leaves Olga's house?
(a) Klamm.
(b) The schoolteacher.
(c) Barnabas.
(d) His assistant.

6. Why does Barnabas want the job of messenger?
(a) For the money it brings.
(b) For the chance to overhear conversations.
(c) Because he is endebted to Klamm.
(d) For the status it brings.

7. Does Frieda come back to K. at the end of Chapter XXII?
(a) No, she stays with Jeremias.
(b) Yes, but she continues to see Jeremias.
(c) No, she leaves both K. and Jeremias.
(d) Yes, she leaves Jeremias for K.

8. Who knocks on K.'s door at the beginning of Chapter XIII?
(a) One of the assistants.
(b) Barnabas.
(c) One of the workers from the Gentlemen's Inn.
(d) One of the children of the master tanner.

9. Why does Hans think his father might be sympathetic toward K.?
(a) Hans' father wanted to summon a land surveyor.
(b) Hans' father was once a stranger in the village.
(c) Hans' father is a land surveyor like K.
(d) Hans' father also wants to see Klamm.

10. Whose secretary is Buergel?
(a) Friedrich's.
(b) Erlanger's.
(c) Sortini's.
(d) Klamm's.

11. What sometimes cures Buergel's insomnia?
(a) Hot milk.
(b) Conversation.
(c) Reading.
(d) Counting sheep.

12. What type of apprenticeship does Barnabas have?
(a) Shoemaker.
(b) Milliner.
(c) Apothecary.
(d) Blacksmith.

13. Who gives Barnabas the letters he is supposed to deliver?
(a) Klamm's private secretary.
(b) Klamm.
(c) A clerk.
(d) A military officer.

14. Who does Barnabas deliver a message from during Chapter XXI?
(a) One of Klamm's secretaries.
(b) Frieda.
(c) A castle guard.
(d) Klamm.

15. What does Erlanger ask from K.?
(a) That Jeremias return to the Castle.
(b) That K. leave the town.
(c) That K. stop seeing Barnabas's family.
(d) That Frieda return to her post.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the landlord react to seeing K. in the corridor at the Gentlemen's Inn?

2. When Amalia's father finally took action after their disgrace, what did he do?

3. What does Buergel do when K. stumbles into his room?

4. What was the family looking at when Sortini approached Amalia?

5. Who does Olga say is the head of their family?

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