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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. Where does K. see Kaminer on his way to the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?
(a) On a train
(b) At the library
(c) At a café
(d) On a bus

2. K. tells the guards who are to be thrashed in “The Thrasher,” “I didn’t complain, I just said what had happened in my apartment. And your behavior wasn’t exactly” what?
(a) Empathetic either
(b) Commendable either
(c) Piteous either
(d) Irreproachable either

3. Herr Block tells K. after the maid’s disappearance that she’s probably in the kitchen making what for Herr Huld in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?
(a) Cake
(b) Chicken
(c) Soup
(d) Tea

4. 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) 11
(b) 8
(c) Midnight
(d) 10

5. What woman is accosted in the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?
(a) Fraülein Bürstner
(b) The Usher’s Wife
(c) The Manufacturer’s Wife
(d) Leni

Short Answer Questions

1. Herr Block tells K. in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer” that Herr Huld has been handling his business affairs ever since he took it over how many years ago?

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

3. The judge who Herr Huld spoke to about Block said of Block in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer,” “Block’s just cunning. He’s gathered a lot of experience and knows how to” what?

4. 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?

5. Which of the guards does the Thrasher say got fat from eating breakfasts at all his arrests in “The Thrasher”?

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