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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. Which of the guards being thrashed says he has a family to feed in “The Thrasher”?
(a) Willem
(b) Franz
(c) Rabensteiner
(d) Kullych

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

3. What word from “The Thrasher” refers to a dishonest, knavish person?
(a) Hector
(b) Conquistador
(c) Protagonist
(d) Rogue

4. 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) French
(c) English
(d) Latin

5. Which of the guards comes to K. and says, “If you can’t get both of us spared, then at least try to get him to let me go” in “The Thrasher”?
(a) Kullych
(b) Rabensteiner
(c) Franz
(d) Willem

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does K. recall having said “that the court was attracted by guilt” in “The First Hearing”?

2. 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”?

3. Huld’s maid tell K. in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer,” “I neither want nor need any other reward than for you to” what?

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

5. What word from “The First Hearing” refers to a vicious or depraved person?

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