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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. What public prosecutor does the Deputy Manager say is coming to his party in the beginning of “The First Hearing”?
(a) Hasterer
(b) Dr. Huld
(c) Kaminer
(d) Rabensteiner

2. 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) Latin
(b) German
(c) French
(d) English

3. Whose claim that his fiancée is waiting for him outside turns out to be a lie in “The Thrasher”?
(a) Kullych’s
(b) Titorelli’s
(c) Franz’s
(d) Willem’s

4. What is Herr Block’s first name?
(a) Rudi
(b) Willem
(c) Peter
(d) Franz

5. 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?
(a) Eat this soup
(b) Be free
(c) Be fond of me
(d) Marry me

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The Thrasher tells K. when he discovers him getting ready to beat the guards, “You shouldn’t believe everything they say. Their fear of being beaten has made them a little” what?

3. 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?

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”?

5. When does the Examining Magistrate in the courtroom say K. should have been there when K. arrives in “The First Hearing”?

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