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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Barnabas' role, according to the letter from K.'s director?
(a) He is a messenger to communicate with the Castle.
(b) He is an assistant to help K. with his work.
(c) He is an overseer to make sure K. is behaving properly.
(d) He is a guard to watch out for K.'s safety.

2. How does K. try to get out of the conversation with Frieda's mother?
(a) By saying he is not decent and must dress.
(b) By saying he is wanted at the Castle immediately.
(c) By saying he must leave for his meeting with the village chairman.
(d) By saying he must go to work surveying the land the inn is on.

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

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

5. What gets thrown on Frieda and K.?
(a) A rug.
(b) A bucket of water.
(c) Their clothes.
(d) A sheet.

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

7. What does K. worry about regarding Frieda?
(a) That she will make Klamm angry with her.
(b) That she will continue to feel attached to Klamm.
(c) That she will continue to sleep with Klamm.
(d) That she will leave him when she learns the Castle does not need him.

8. What reason does K. suggest for the landlady's reluctance to have him talk to Klamm?
(a) That she is employed by Klamm.
(b) That she is protecting her daughter.
(c) That she doesn't want K. to get in trouble.
(d) That she is protecting Klamm.

9. When do they tell K. that Klamm left the Gentleman's Inn?
(a) While K. was waiting for Klamm.
(b) A few hours after K. had left.
(c) Before K. arrived at the Gentleman's Inn.
(d) As soon as K. was out of the way.

10. What does Frieda refer to the assistants as?
(a) Klamm's missionaries.
(b) Klamm's misfits.
(c) Klamm's entourage.
(d) Klamm's emissaries.

11. What does Klamm try to find on the wall in the taproom?
(a) An inscription.
(b) The peephole.
(c) A picture.
(d) A lantern.

12. What does Frieda ask K. to do?
(a) Go abroad and start a business, then ask her to come when he's established.
(b) Go live abroad with her.
(c) Go away from the town and leave her.
(d) Stay with her in the down, despite the townspeople.

13. How does K. get back to the inn?
(a) On a bicycle.
(b) On foot.
(c) In a sleigh.
(d) On a horse.

14. What does the landlady say about Barnabas' family?
(a) They won't talk to Frieda.
(b) They have a bad reputation.
(c) They are snobs.
(d) They are unfriendly.

15. Who leases the inn to the landlady and landlord?
(a) The landlady's father.
(b) The landlord's uncle.
(c) The Count.
(d) Klamm.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the landlady say she feels about K. staying at the inn?

2. How does the teacher characterize the chairman in the conversation?

3. What is K. asked to get out of Klamm's sleigh?

4. How does the landlord say that the landlady has been feeling?

5. What does the letter praise?

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