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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 photo does the landlady show K.?

2. What jumps on Frieda in the middle of the night at the school?

3. Who does K. believe is behind the landlady's marriage and the lease of the inn?

4. How likely does Frieda's mother say it is for K. to see Klamm?

5. What is the chairman suffering from?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does K. feel in the village?

2. What does the coachman tell K. about Klamm's arrival at the coach?

3. What happens between K. and the assistants after Frieda gets up in the middle of the night at the school?

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

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

6. Who are the people in the house K. stops at on his way toward the Castle?

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

8. What does the landlady say will happen to the record of K.'s talk with the gentleman?

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

10. What impression does Frieda make when K. first meets her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of women in THE CASTLE.

1) What role does Amalia play in the novel? What is her role as a woman in the village's culture? How does she defy that role, and what are the consequences?

2) What role does Frieda play in the novel? Does she use her gender to gain a social advantage? How does the culture promote that behavior?

3) What role does the landlady play in the novel? What does her position say about the role of women in the society?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the unspoken and unwritten rules in the novel.

1) What are the rules of behavior in the village? How do the people in the village know those rules?

2) What are the rules of behavior for secretaries in the Castle? How do the Castle employees know those rules?

3) What does K. think of unspoken and unwritten rules? What is the result of his attitude?

Essay Topic 3

In THE CASTLE, the relationship between individuals in groups is important. Discuss the role of social dynamics in the novel.

1) How does the relationship between the twins Jeremias and Artur compare to the social dynamics in the culture of the village? What is the significance of the fact that they age faster apart? How do they act as individuals, and how do they act as a group?

2) How does the culture of the village and the dynamics of groups have power in the novel? How does the village as a whole act differently from individuals?

3) How does the bureaucracy of the Castle reflect the dynamics of groups, as opposed to individuals?

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