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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The First Hearing.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is K.’s position at the bank where he works in the novel?
(a) Morning desk clerk
(b) Chief Financial Officer
(c) President
(d) Vice-President

2. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “stiff, swinging his arms” and apathetic?
(a) Rabensteiner
(b) Kaminer
(c) Franz
(d) Willem

3. 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) Gray
(b) White
(c) Black
(d) Blue

4. What subordinate bank employee is described in “The Arrest” as having an “intolerable smile caused by a chronic muscular spasm”?
(a) Kaminer
(b) Franz
(c) Kullych
(d) Willem

5. What season is described in the opening of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) Winter
(b) Autumn
(c) Summer
(d) Spring

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does K. recall having said “that the court was attracted by guilt” in “The First Hearing”?

2. The supervisor who enters K.’s home after the guards in “The Arrest” tells him, “Think less about us and what is going to happen to you, think more about” what?

3. When Fraülein Bürstner looks around her room for any signs of disorder after returning home, she remarks that what “have been messed up” in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

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

5. The narrator describes K. as generally staying at the office until what time in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

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