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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hans think his father might be sympathetic toward K.?
(a) Hans' father was once a stranger in the village.
(b) Hans' father wanted to summon a land surveyor.
(c) Hans' father is a land surveyor like K.
(d) Hans' father also wants to see Klamm.

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

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

4. What does K. say about Amalia's attractiveness?
(a) She is far lovelier than Frieda.
(b) She is annoyingly bubbly.
(c) She is too reserved and unapproachable.
(d) Her friendly personality makes her irresistable.

5. What does Frieda think of K.'s conversation with Hans?
(a) K. was judgemental.
(b) K. was deceptive.
(c) K. was argumentative.
(d) K. was helpful.

6. What sometimes cures Buergel's insomnia?
(a) Reading.
(b) Hot milk.
(c) Conversation.
(d) Counting sheep.

7. What does K. take when he leaves Olga's house?
(a) A knife.
(b) A willow switch.
(c) A heavy vase.
(d) A rock.

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

9. How do the gentlemen react to the deliveries?
(a) They take the deliveries and then redeliver to someone else.
(b) They fight over the deliveries.
(c) They accept the deliveries with flamboyant thanks.
(d) They try to avoid deliveries to them.

10. What does Buergel do when K. stumbles into his room?
(a) He calls security.
(b) He yells at K.
(c) He calls down to the inn's owner.
(d) He invites K. in.

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

12. Who does K. discover has connections at the Castle?
(a) The teacher he talked to on the road.
(b) The assistants he has sent away.
(c) The landlady of the inn he stayed at.
(d) The woman K. saw nursing soon after his arrival in town.

13. Why does Barnabas want the job of messenger?
(a) Because he is endebted to Klamm.
(b) For the chance to overhear conversations.
(c) For the status it brings.
(d) For the money it brings.

14. Does Frieda come back to K. at the end of Chapter XXII?
(a) No, she leaves both K. and Jeremias.
(b) Yes, she leaves Jeremias for K.
(c) No, she stays with Jeremias.
(d) Yes, but she continues to see Jeremias.

15. Who gives Barnabas the letters he is supposed to deliver?
(a) Klamm.
(b) A military officer.
(c) A clerk.
(d) Klamm's private secretary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Amalia's father's profession?

2. What does K. say about Olga's attractiveness?

3. What did the father do when the family's money ran out?

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

5. What does K. do while listening to Buergel?

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