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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The First Hearing.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Frau Grubach’s relationship to K.?
(a) She is his niece
(b) She is his mother
(c) She is his landlady
(d) She is his aunt

2. K. decides when looking for the courtroom in “The First Hearing” to ask around for a carpenter named what?
(a) Titorelli
(b) Lanz.
(c) Huld
(d) Willem

3. 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?
(a) The next Sunday
(b) The next Monday
(c) The next Thursday
(d) The next Tuesday

4. What is the name of the second guard that tells K. that he’s under arrest in “The Arrest”?
(a) Kaminer
(b) Willem
(c) Franz
(d) Hasterer

5. 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) At his church
(b) On his yacht
(c) At his estate
(d) At the office

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes K. as generally staying at the office until what time 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. The guards at K.’s house tell him that his jacket for the meeting with the supervisor must be what color in the beginning of “The Arrest”?

4. When did World War I begin?

5. The next room to K.’s in “The Arrest” has been taken by “a typist, who went off to work very early and came back late.” What is this character’s name?

(see the answer key)

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