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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what day of the week does K. return to the courtroom in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
(a) Tuesday
(b) Saturday
(c) Thursday
(d) Sunday

2. The defendant that K. speaks to in the Court Offices in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” says he made several applications for evidence to be produced in his case when?
(a) A year ago
(b) A month ago
(c) Yesterday
(d) A week ago

3. The second book that K. examines in the courtroom in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” is a novel titled what?
(a) The Torments Grete Had to Suffer from her Husband Hans
(b) Little Women
(c) The Trial
(d) The Torrential Downpour upon the Ungrateful and Unworthy

4. What is K.’s first name in the novel?
(a) Peter
(b) James
(c) Franz
(d) Josef

5. The Usher tells K. as they pass through the waiting room of the Court Offices in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices,” “Most of the defendants are very” what?
(a) Sensitive
(b) Insensitive
(c) Judicial
(d) Anxious

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose claim that his fiancée is waiting for him outside turns out to be a lie in “The Thrasher”?

2. 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?

3. Where does Fraülein Bürstner say Frau Grubach’s nephew is sleeping in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

4. Where does Frau Grubach say Fraülein Bürstner has gone in the evening when K. returns home in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

5. What subordinate bank employee is described in “The Arrest” as having an “intolerable smile caused by a chronic muscular spasm”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the atmosphere of the setting described in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

2. How is the Examining Magistrate described in “The First Hearing”? What does he ask K.?

3. How is the character of Willem described n “The Arrest”? How does he compare to Franz?

4. What excuse does Willem give K. for his previous behavior in “The Thrasher”?

5. What information has K. learned about his coming hearing in the opening of “The First Hearing”? How did he gain this information?

6. What is K.’s reaction to the invitation given him by the Deputy Manager in “The First Hearing”?

7. Describe the setting of The Trial. How does the author establish the setting in “The Arrest”?

8. Where do Franz and Willem take K. in “The Arrest”? Why?

9. What is Josef K.’s central plight in “The Arrest”? How does he go about achieving his goal?

10. Why does the Thrasher tell K. he shouldn’t believe everything the guards say in “The Thrasher”?

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