The Castle Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 135 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Castle Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 135 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the landlady meet her husband?

2. What does K. want to do about his assistants?

3. What is Frieda's relationship with Klamm?

4. How does K. get back to the inn?

5. What photo does the landlady show K.?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the chairman characterize the Castle's bureaucracy?

2. What is K.'s attitude toward the gentleman in Chapter IX?

3. What does Klamm look like?

4. What reason does the teacher give that the chairman wants to help K.?

5. What reason does K. give for refusing to let the assistants come back?

6. What does K. suspect about Frieda, at the end of Chapter XII?

7. What does the coachman tell K. about Klamm's arrival at the coach?

8. What reason does the landlady give K. that her conversation with him is important, and does her reason seem true, based on the conversation?

9. What does the landlady say will happen to the record of K.'s talk with the gentleman?

10. What does Klamm write about K.'s assistants, and how does this compare to the reality of K.'s assistants' roles?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The bureaucracy of the Castle seems to have no guiding force or leader, and is self-reinforcing, following only rules and regulations. Discuss the leaderless nature of the machine of bureaucracy.

1) Who assesses how well the bureaucracy of the Castle is functioning? What are the consequences?

2) How does the Castle itself function as a leader for the village? What are the consequences of the fact that the Castle is not a person, but an institution? What difference would it make if instead of a Castle, the village followed a King?

3) What controls the Castle? How is bureaucratic control different than control by a leader?

Essay Topic 2

In the novel, the bureaucracy of the Castle is both very powerful and lacking in power. Discuss this dynamic.

1) In what ways is the bureaucracy of the Castle powerful? How does it control people's actions?

2) In what ways does the bureaucracy of the Castle lack power? How does K. manage to defy the bureaucracy?

3) How does the bureaucracy's power, and lack of power, affect Amalia and her family?

Essay Topic 3

In the novel, the motivations of people are often open to question. Discuss the significance of the ambiguity of characters' motivations.

1) Are K.'s motivations clear? What are his possible motivations for being with Frieda? Do his motivations make a difference? What do you think of K.'s argument that his motivations don't necessarily matter?

2) What are conflicting reports of Frieda's motivations? How ambiguous are her motives? How important is it that other people can't necessarily ever fully understand her motivations?

3) How does the obscurity of the workings of the Castle compare to the obscurity of the motives of the characters?

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