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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Frieda doing when K. sees her at the Gentlemen's Inn?
(a) Cleaning the rooms.
(b) Serving drinks in the taproom.
(c) Cleaning tables in the taproom.
(d) Carrying baggage for the guests.

2. What does K. say about Olga's attractiveness?
(a) She is neither pretty nor friendly.
(b) She is pretty but not friendly.
(c) She is both pretty and friendly.
(d) She is friendly but not pretty.

3. What was the family forced to do?
(a) Pay extra taxes to the Castle.
(b) Become unpaid servants to noblemen.
(c) Sell their cattle and horses.
(d) Move out of their house.

4. Who does K. say he might be able to help medically?
(a) Klamm.
(b) The landlord.
(c) Hans' mother.
(d) The assistants.

5. What is Frieda doing when K. returns to the schoolhouse in Chapter XV?
(a) Mopping the floors.
(b) Telling stories to the children.
(c) Sorting the library books.
(d) Bathing a cat.

6. What was the family looking at when Sortini approached Amalia?
(a) A poster.
(b) A horse.
(c) A tall building.
(d) A fire engine.

7. What does K. do when he sees Frieda?
(a) Ignores her.
(b) Runs to her and embraces her.
(c) Slaps her face.
(d) Shakes her hand coldly.

8. What crime had the Castle formally charged the family with?
(a) Insulting a nobleman.
(b) None.
(c) Evading an order to appear.
(d) Being a public nuisance.

9. What do the gentlemen in the Gentlemen's Inn do to call the landlord?
(a) They yell down the stairs.
(b) They send their secretaries to get him.
(c) They blow a whistle.
(d) They ring electrc bells.

10. Where does the letter-writer want to meet K.?
(a) At the Bridge Inn.
(b) At the schoolhouse.
(c) At the Castle gates.
(d) In the Gentlemen's Inn.

11. Who does K. intend to use his weapon against when he leaves Olga's house?
(a) Klamm.
(b) His assistant.
(c) Barnabas.
(d) The schoolteacher.

12. What did Sortini order Amalia to do in his letter?
(a) Come to the Castle.
(b) Meet him in the schoolhouse.
(c) Meet him at the festival.
(d) Come to the Gentlemen's Inn.

13. Who controlled the family's response to being ostracized by the community?
(a) Olga.
(b) Amalia.
(c) The father.
(d) The mother.

14. Where do the letters Barnabas delivers come from?
(a) A clerk who writes letters all day.
(b) A machine.
(c) A stack of old letters.
(d) A mysterious unseen person inside an office.

15. Who was the first letter that Barnabas delivered sent to?
(a) His father.
(b) Amalia.
(c) K.
(d) Klamm.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the landlord react to seeing K. in the corridor at the Gentlemen's Inn?

2. Who has saved K.'s job as janitor?

3. Where does Olga make the contacts that eventually get Barnabas his job with the Castle?

4. Who led the family toward Sortini when they saw him approaching?

5. Who is waiting at the meeting place when K. gets there?

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