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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of interrogations does Buergel say are best for the person being interrogated?
(a) Interrogations at the Castle.
(b) Nighttime interrogations.
(c) Daytime interrogations.
(d) Interrogations at the person's home.

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

3. How long does Barnabas have to wait for the letters he delivers?
(a) At most, several hours.
(b) A long time, sometimes days.
(c) Usually a half hour to an hour.
(d) Never more than a few minutes.

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

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

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

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

8. Whose secretary is Buergel?
(a) Friedrich's.
(b) Erlanger's.
(c) Klamm's.
(d) Sortini's.

9. 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 it will be impossible.
(c) He thinks it will only take a few words from him.
(d) He thinks he will have to beg her and show his worth.

10. Why does K. go to see Barnabas in Chapter XV?
(a) Because he wants to hire Barnabas to do a secret errand.
(b) Because he has a new message for Barnabas to deliver.
(c) Because he suspects that Barnabas knows a secret way to get to Klamm.
(d) Because he hasn't heard from Barnabas about his message to Klamm.

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

12. How effective is bribing Castle officials?
(a) Effective, if the bribe is large enough.
(b) Effective, if the bribe is given to the right official.
(c) Ineffective and usually resulting in criminal prosecution.
(d) Ineffective but tolerated.

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

14. What does Buergel talk to K. about?
(a) The way the secretary system works.
(b) The schedule of arrivals and departures at the Gentlemen's Inn.
(c) The architectural design of the Castle.
(d) The private lives of the Castle elite.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Frieda doing when K. sees her at the Gentlemen's Inn?

2. Who controlled the family's response to being ostracized by the community?

3. What is the relationship between Schwarzer and Gisa?

4. What do the gentlemen in the Gentlemen's Inn do to call the landlord?

5. What type of apprenticeship does Barnabas have?

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