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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 reason does Frieda give that she is sad she left the Gentlemen's Inn?

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

3. What does K. worry about regarding Frieda?

4. Why does the landlady say that Frieda never received gifts from Klamm?

5. Who does K. say summoned him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is K.'s attitude toward the gentleman in Chapter IX?

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

3. What does Klamm look like?

4. What does K. do to get fuel for a fire?

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

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

7. What do Artur and Jeremias know about land surveying?

8. What reason does K. give for refusing to let the assistants come back?

9. How does K. feel when he goes to see the village chairman?

10. What does K. ask Frieda about when he first meets her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the town's acceptance of K. as a stranger.

1) How do the people in the town feel about strangers and outsiders? What is the culture's attitude toward outsiders?

2) In what ways does K. become accepted in the town? What role does his relationship with the Castle play in his acceptance? What role does his engagement to Frieda play in his acceptance?

3) In what ways does K. remain an outsider in the town? Is K. responsible for remaining an outsider, and to what extent?

Essay Topic 3

The bureaucracy of the Castle seems to have no guiding force or leader, and is self-reinforcing, following only rules and regulations. Discuss the leaderless nature of the machine of bureaucracy.

1) Who assesses how well the bureaucracy of the Castle is functioning? What are the consequences?

2) How does the Castle itself function as a leader for the village? What are the consequences of the fact that the Castle is not a person, but an institution? What difference would it make if instead of a Castle, the village followed a King?

3) What controls the Castle? How is bureaucratic control different than control by a leader?

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