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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through His Uncle - Leni.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator describes K. as generally staying at the office until what time in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) 9
(b) 11
(c) 10
(d) 8

3. Where does Uncle Karl know Huld from?
(a) The lecture circuit
(b) The military
(c) Church
(d) School

4. What word refers to a fictional society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening?
(a) Utopia
(b) Dystopia
(c) Malatopia
(d) Malfunction

5. The young woman in the Court Offices tells K. in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices,” “We, that is the staff here, decided that the information clerk, who is constantly dealing with the public and is their first contact with the court, ought to be given” what?
(a) A telephone
(b) A nice haircut
(c) Good sleeping quarters
(d) Elegant clothes

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Fraülein Bürstner say Frau Grubach’s nephew is sleeping in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

2. What name, meaning the servants of an army, does K. call the Examining Magistrate and the others of the courtroom as he exits in “The First Hearing”?

3. K. points out to Fraülein Bürstner that Frau Grubach is dependent on him for what reason in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

4. To whom does K. say in “The Thrasher,” “It’s about time you cleared out that lumber-room. We’re drowning in filth”?

5. 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?

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