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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. Who does K. recall having said “that the court was attracted by guilt” in “The First Hearing”?
(a) Rabensteiner
(b) Dr. Huld
(c) Franz
(d) Willem

2. 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) Elegant clothes
(d) A nice haircut

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 Trial
(b) The Torments Grete Had to Suffer from her Husband Hans
(c) The Torrential Downpour upon the Ungrateful and Unworthy
(d) Little Women

4. Where does Frau Grubach say Fraülein Bürstner has gone in the evening when K. returns home in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) To a jazz bar
(b) To church
(c) To the theatre
(d) To her lover’s house

5. On what street is K.’s courtroom said to be located in “The First Hearing”?
(a) Ringstrasse
(b) Friedrichstrasse
(c) Kopenhagener Strasse
(d) Juliusstrasse

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in the beginning of “The First Hearing” that “K. had been informed by telephone that a short hearing in his affair would take place” when?

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

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

4. What word from “The Thrasher” means to secure or bring about by force?

5. What is Frau Grubach’s relationship to K.?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Franz say when he grovels to K. for help in “The Thrasher”?

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

4. What response does K. receive when he asks the three men in the lumber-room, “What are you doing here” in “The Thrasher”?

5. Who does K. find at the courtroom on the week after his first hearing in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

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

7. How is K.’s resistance to the system perceived in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

8. Where does the Usher lead K. in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”? How is this setting described?

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

10. How is K.’s behavior toward Fraülein Bürstner in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach” relative to his actions as a whole in the novel?

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