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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Herr Block tells K. in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer” that waiting is not pointless. “The only thing that is pointless is” what?
(a) Entering a plea of innocence
(b) Entering a plea of guilty
(c) Acting on your own initiative
(d) Hiring a lawyer

2. It’s after what time when K. rings on Herr Huld’s door in the beginning of “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?
(a) Midnight
(b) 10
(c) 11
(d) 8

3. In the ending of “The Thrasher,” K. waits to ensure he’s alone as he leaves his office, then goes home “weary and his mind” what?
(a) A blank
(b) On a brink
(c) Racing
(d) Enraptured

4. Of the proceedings against him, K. tells the Examining Magistrate, “[L]et us say I do recognize them, out of” what?
(a) Redemption
(b) Pity
(c) Irony
(d) Fear

5. The narrator states in the beginning of “The First Hearing” that “K. had been informed by telephone that a short hearing in his affair would take place” when?
(a) The next Tuesday
(b) The next Thursday
(c) The next Sunday
(d) The next Monday

Short Answer Questions

1. K. considers the Deputy Manager’s invitation to his party to be what, in “The First Hearing”?

2. What is Herr Block’s first name?

3. What does K. find when he opens the door in his office the second time where he’d previously seen the thrasher and the guards in “The Thrasher”?

4. What does K. tell the messengers the sound is from when the guards scream as they’re beaten in “The Thrasher”?

5. How old is K.’s trial said to be in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?

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