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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the father do when the family's money ran out?
(a) He camped out in front of the Castle gates.
(b) He started staying at home, not bathing, and pacing all day.
(c) He started trying to organize a revolt against the Castle.
(d) He started writing angry letters to the Castle.

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

3. Who knocks on K.'s door at the beginning of Chapter XIII?
(a) Barnabas.
(b) One of the workers from the Gentlemen's Inn.
(c) One of the assistants.
(d) One of the children of the master tanner.

4. Who is Galater?
(a) Klamm's substitute.
(b) Klamm's uncle.
(c) Klamm's boss.
(d) Klamm's new secretary.

5. What does K. see being delivered in the Gentlemen's Inn, as the morning approaches?
(a) Breakfast.
(b) Books.
(c) Files.
(d) Flowers.

6. Who does Olga say is the head of their family?
(a) Amalia.
(b) Their father.
(c) Barnabas.
(d) Their mother.

7. What did Frieda's mother warn her about K.?
(a) That K. was lazy and stubborn.
(b) That K. was manipulative and ambitious.
(c) That K. was violent and abusive.
(d) That K. was drunken and sullen.

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

9. How easy does K. think it will be to win Frieda back?
(a) He thinks he will have to beg her and show his worth.
(b) He thinks it will only take a few words from him.
(c) He thinks it will be very difficult, and he'll have to make tough concessions.
(d) He thinks it will be impossible.

10. Who tells K. the story of how their family became disparaged in the community?
(a) Amalia.
(b) Olga.
(c) Barnabas' mother.
(d) Barnabas.

11. What does the teacher scold K. for at the beginning of Chapter XIV?
(a) Talking to the wrong people.
(b) Not being polite enough.
(c) Not dressing properly.
(d) Not cleaning up the room.

12. What does Erlanger ask from K.?
(a) That Frieda return to her post.
(b) That K. leave the town.
(c) That Jeremias return to the Castle.
(d) That K. stop seeing Barnabas's family.

13. What does Jeremias do after hearing the contents of the letter?
(a) Attacks K.
(b) Takes the letter and tears it up.
(c) Runs off toward the meeting place.
(d) Attacks Barnabas.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the letter-writer want to meet K.?

3. Who does Barnabas deliver a message from during Chapter XXI?

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

5. Whose secretary is Buergel?

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