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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. How many unregistered lawyers does Herr Block say he has working on his case in addition to Herr Huld in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?
(a) 5
(b) 2
(c) 4
(d) 6
2. To whom does K. say in “The Thrasher,” “It’s about time you cleared out that lumber-room. We’re drowning in filth”?
(a) The Usher’s Wife
(b) The Examining Magistrate
(c) The messengers
(d) The Usher.
3. The Examining Magistrate asks K. if he is what when he begins questioning him in “The First Hearing”?
(a) A cab driver and mechanic
(b) A bus driver and teacher
(c) A teacher and scholar
(d) A painter and decorator
4. The Deputy Manager invites K. to a party where on the same day as K.’s hearing in the beginning of “The First Hearing”?
(a) On his yacht
(b) At the office
(c) At his church
(d) At his estate
5. Describing his early submissions in his trial, Herr Block tells K. that much of it was written in what language in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?
(a) German
(b) Latin
(c) French
(d) English
Short Answer Questions
1. When K. is met by scowling children on his way up the stairs to the courtroom in “The First Hearing,” he thinks to himself, “If I have to come here again, I’ll either have to bring some sweets, to win them over, or” what?
2. 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?
3. Where does K. see Kaminer on his way to the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?
4. What word from “The First Hearing” refers to a child’s apron or woman’s sleeveless garment worn over a dress?
5. K. hears groans coming from behind a door in his office building that “he had always assumed, without having actually seen it himself, that there was nothing but” what, in “The Thrasher”?
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