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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Frieda's relationship with Klamm?
(a) They are enemies.
(b) They are lovers.
(c) They are siblings.
(d) They are friends.

2. How does K. feel when he leaves the meeting with the chairman?
(a) Unsatisfied.
(b) Mournful.
(c) Happy.
(d) Nervous.

3. What position does the chairman offer to K.?
(a) School janitor.
(b) Clock maintenance worker.
(c) Surveying instructor.
(d) School librarian.

4. How does the landlord say that the landlady has been feeling?
(a) Worried that she has hurt K.
(b) Sick and upset because of K.
(c) Nervous that K. will make trouble for her.
(d) Sad that she's hurt her daughter.

5. 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 must leave for his meeting with the village chairman.
(c) By saying he must go to work surveying the land the inn is on.
(d) By saying he is wanted at the Castle immediately.

6. Who does K. meet on the road?
(a) Olga and Barnabas.
(b) Frieda and Olga.
(c) His assistants and Frieda.
(d) His assistants and Barnabas.

7. What is K. asked to get out of Klamm's sleigh?
(a) A music box.
(b) A riding crop.
(c) Klamm's spectacles.
(d) Cognac.

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

9. How likely does Frieda's mother say it is for K. to see Klamm?
(a) Somewhat unlikely.
(b) Very likely.
(c) Impossible.
(d) Certain.

10. Does Frieda agree with what K. wants to do about the assistants?
(a) No, she wants to keep the assistants near them constantly.
(b) Yes, she is even more critical of the assistants than K. is.
(c) Yes, though she is more tolerant of the assistants than K. is.
(d) No, but she wants more time away from teh assistants.

11. When K. returns to the inn after meeting with the chairman, what does the landlord ask him?
(a) Whether he has gotten to see Klamm.
(b) Whether he is satisfied with his treatment at the inn.
(c) Whether he has had anything to eat.
(d) Whether he has found a new place to stay.

12. When does K. say he wants to see Klamm?
(a) As soon as possible.
(b) Before he must report to the village authorities.
(c) Whenever Klamm has time in his schedule.
(d) Within the next week.

13. Why do the characters have trouble sleeping at the school?
(a) It is too cold.
(b) It is too hot.
(c) It is too bright.
(d) It is too noisy.

14. What does K. want to do about his assistants?
(a) Send them to the Castle.
(b) Find them new jobs.
(c) Send them away.
(d) Find them a separate place to live.

15. What is it like inside Klamm's sleigh?
(a) Luxurious and warm.
(b) Cold and uncomforable.
(c) Sterile and austere.
(d) Cramped and hot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Frieda's mother give for letting K. stay in the inn when he first arrived?

2. Where does K. go at the beginning of Chapter IX?

3. From whom does K. receive a letter?

4. What document does the chairman try to locate?

5. When does K. tell Frieda's mother that he plans to marry Frieda?

(see the answer keys)

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