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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through His Uncle - Leni.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” refers to a person engaged in a lawsuit?
(a) Elucidate
(b) Liturgy
(c) Litigant
(d) Candidate

2. Who moves into Fraülein Bürstner’s room with her in the course of the novel?
(a) Fraülein Montag
(b) Frau Grubach
(c) Rabensteiner
(d) The Manufacturer

3. What word used in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” refers to a complete change of form, structure, or substance?
(a) Parity
(b) Stasis
(c) Equipoise
(d) Metamorphosis

4. 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?
(a) Good sleeping quarters
(b) A telephone
(c) A nice haircut
(d) Elegant clothes

5. What does Herr Huld’s maid tell K. is the only way of escaping the legal problems K. is facing in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) To confess
(b) To hire an attorney
(c) To leave the country
(d) To plead not guilty

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Uncle Karl know Huld from?

2. By what nickname does the narrator say K. used to refer to his uncle as in “His Uncle – Leni”?

3. Which of the guards does the Thrasher say got fat from eating breakfasts at all his arrests in “The Thrasher”?

4. In the ending of “The Thrasher,” K. waits to ensure he’s alone as he leaves his office, then goes home “weary and his mind” what?

5. What does K. do before leaving Fraülein Bürstner’s room in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

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