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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Thrasher’s outfit made from in “The Thrasher”?
(a) Cotton
(b) Silk
(c) Leather
(d) Satin

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

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

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

5. What is Herr Block’s first name?
(a) Willem
(b) Peter
(c) Franz
(d) Rudi

Short Answer Questions

1. How many unregistered lawyers does Herr Block say he has working on his case in addition to Herr Huld in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?

2. Of the proceedings against him, K. tells the Examining Magistrate, “[L]et us say I do recognize them, out of” what?

3. Describing his early submissions in his trial, Herr Block tells K. that much of it was written in what language in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?

4. Herr Block says in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer,” “I will remind you of the old axiom: ‘For a suspect, movement is better than staying still, for someone who is still can always, without realizing it, be in the scales and be weighed with’” what?

5. What does K. tell the messengers the sound is from when the guards scream as they’re beaten in “The Thrasher”?

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