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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the landlady say about the landlord?
(a) He is secretly employed by Klamm and does what the official wants.
(b) He supports the landlady in everything she asks for.
(c) He is jealous of K.
(d) He resents the landlady and goes against whatever she wants.

2. What photo does the landlady show K.?
(a) A photo of her husband as a young man.
(b) A photo of Frieda as a young girl.
(c) A photo of a messenger Klamm sent to her long ago.
(d) A photo of herself as a young girl.

3. What is K.'s first reaction to the job offer?
(a) He negotiates for better pay.
(b) He accepts it.
(c) He says he'll have to think about it.
(d) He refuses it.

4. What answer does K. get when he calls the Castle himself for permission to visit?
(a) He is told no.
(b) He is told he can come at once.
(c) He is told he must wait three days.
(d) He is told he must fill out the right forms.

5. Who does Frieda say the assistants really want?
(a) Frieda.
(b) K.
(c) Klamm.
(d) Barnabas.

6. How does K. get to see Klamm?
(a) By passing him on the street.
(b) By rushing into his office unannounced.
(c) By looking through a peephole.
(d) By sitting next to him at the restaurant.

7. How does the teacher say K. treated the chairman?
(a) Considerately.
(b) Unethically.
(c) Appropriately.
(d) Rudely.

8. What does K. tell Frieda's mother he wants to see Klamm for?
(a) K. wants to know when the Count will come see him.
(b) K. wants to challenge Klamm to a duel over Frieda's affections.
(c) K. wants to make sure Klamm has no hard feelings about K. marrying Frieda.
(d) K. wants Klamm's permission to go to the Castle.

9. Who is the gentleman waiting for K. at the beginning of Chapter IX?
(a) Klamm's valet.
(b) Klamm's senior assistant.
(c) Klamm's village secretary.
(d) Klamm's brother.

10. What does K. say about attempts to communicate through intermediaries?
(a) They enhance communication.
(b) They are inefficient.
(c) They work in his favor.
(d) They are failures.

11. What does Frieda want K. to do about the job offer?
(a) She wants him to take the job.
(b) She wants him to reject the job.
(c) She wants him to negotiate for time off to be with her.
(d) She wants him to negotiate for a higher position.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Artur and Jeremias look like?

2. What does the letter praise?

3. Who discovers Frieda and K. embracing in K.'s room?

4. What finally happens to the sleigh and the horses?

5. What is Frieda's job at the taproom?

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