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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frieda say that K. wants from Hans' family?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Money.
(c) Access to the Castle.
(d) A place to stay for free.

2. What would happen to Amalia's father when he went into the Castle?
(a) He would be unable to see anyone, even a clerk.
(b) He would see a clerk or guard, but get no results.
(c) He would see an official, but get no results.
(d) He would get sent back out.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What health concern does Amalia's father have?
(a) A bad heart.
(b) Rheumatism.
(c) Allergies.
(d) A paralyzed foot.

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

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

15. Where does K. fall asleep at the end of Chapter XXIV?
(a) In the street.
(b) On the rug.
(c) In a bathtub.
(d) In a barrel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does K. do when he sees Frieda?

2. Who gives Barnabas the letters he is supposed to deliver?

3. What does K. say about his loyalty to Frieda?

4. What is Frieda doing when K. returns to the schoolhouse in Chapter XV?

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

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