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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does K. want to do about his assistants?

2. When do they tell K. that Klamm left the Gentleman's Inn?

3. What does the letter praise?

4. How does the landlord say that the landlady has been feeling?

5. What reason does Frieda suggest for letting the assistants return?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does K. call Artur and Jeremias and why?

2. How does K. discover that Klamm is staying at the Gentlemen's Inn?

3. What does the gentleman who comes to the coach while K. is there waiting want?

4. What message does K. send through Barnabas to Klamm?

5. What reason does the landlady give K. that her conversation with him is important, and does her reason seem true, based on the conversation?

6. What does Klamm write about K.'s assistants, and how does this compare to the reality of K.'s assistants' roles?

7. What happens when K. first wakes up the morning after meeting Frieda?

8. What use does Frieda think the position offered to K. might serve?

9. How does K. react to the gentleman who comes to the coach while K. is there waiting?

10. What does K. believe is the reason that Hans and his family never received favors from Klamm?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the novel, the constructed reality of the culture is more important than a natural reality. The rules of the culture are artificial, created by people and enforced by people on themselves. Discuss constructed reality in the novel.

1) In what way is the life of the town artificial? How does this allow K. to break rules and do things other characters constrained by the constructed reality couldn't do?

2) What makes the constructed reality of the culture of the village powerful? Why is it important to the characters in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the ideas of deception and of using people in the novel.

1) Is K. misleading toward Hans when he offers to see if he can help Hans' mother? Does it matter what K.'s goal and intentions are?

2) Do K. and Frieda use each other? Do they deceive each other about their motives? Does it matter?

3) How does the culture of the village and the Castle encourage deception and using people?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss love in the novel.

1) Does K. love Frieda? How do you know? What is K.'s attitude toward love?

2) Does Frieda love K.? How do you know? What is Frieda's attitude toward love?

3) Do the characters in the novel love Klamm? How is their love for Klamm expressed, and how is it different from their love for each other? What does the landlady of the Bridge Inn's feelings for Klamm say about love?

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