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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) Money.
(b) A place to stay for free.
(c) Access to the Castle.
(d) Friendship.

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

3. 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 trying to organize a revolt against the Castle.
(c) He started staying at home, not bathing, and pacing all day.
(d) He started writing angry letters to the Castle.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How was Amalia's father punished for her disobedience?
(a) He was demoted.
(b) His diploma was taken away.
(c) He was given extra work to do every night.
(d) He was ignored by all his coworkers.

11. What does K. say about his loyalty to Frieda?
(a) That it doesn't matter whether he was unfaithful.
(b) That she doesn't deserve to know whether he was faithful.
(c) That she is horrid to challenge his faithfulness.
(d) That he was never unfaithful.

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

13. Who is waiting at the meeting place when K. gets there?
(a) A large crowd of people.
(b) Frieda and Amalia.
(c) No one.
(d) The landlord and landlady.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Erlanger ask from K.?

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

3. How effective is bribing Castle officials?

4. What did Frieda's mother warn her about K.?

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

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