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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 crime had the Castle formally charged the family with?

2. What does K. do when he sees Frieda?

3. What does K. say about Amalia's attractiveness?

4. What type of apprenticeship does Barnabas have?

5. What does Frieda think K. might be using her for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Jeremias and Frieda go to work after K. leaves?

2. What does Barnabas' family think about his job with the Castle?

3. What does K. hope that Barnabas' good news was?

4. What did Olga do to try to remove her family's disgrace?

5. What reason does Erlanger give K. the request Erlanger is making during the meeting?

6. What was Amalia's father hoping for at his work, before the family's disgrace?

7. What did the townspeople do after Amalia's disobedience became known?

8. When does K. plan on visiting Hans' mother?

9. What did Sortini do when Amalia's family approached him?

10. What reasons does Buergel give against forbidding interrogations at night?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 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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