This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter III: Frieda and Chapter IV: First Conversation with the Landlady.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does K. tell Frieda's mother that he plans to marry Frieda?
(a) As soon as possible.
(b) The following summer.
(c) Never.
(d) Perhaps in a year or so.

2. Do the people in the house know about K.?
(a) No, they have only heard vague rumors of a stranger in town.
(b) No, they have never heard anything about him.
(c) Yes, but they pretend not to know of him.
(d) Yes, they have heard talk about him.

3. What is the weather like the morning after K. arrives?
(a) It is sunny and warm.
(b) There is snow.
(c) It is cloudy and dark.
(d) It is raining.

4. What does Schwarzer tell K. in the beginning of the novel when the two first meet?
(a) That K. has to work for his board at the inn.
(b) That K. is welcome in the village.
(c) That K. has to show papers bearing the royal seal from the Castle.
(d) That K. has no permission to be there.

5. What reason does Frieda's mother give for letting K. stay in the inn when he first arrived?
(a) She needed the money.
(b) She was too tired to kick him out.
(c) She thought K. would be a good connection with the Castle.
(d) She thought it would be nice to talk to someone new.