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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 countries comprised the Allied Powers in the beginning of World War I?
(a) Germany and Austria-Hungary
(b) France, Spain, and Germany
(c) The United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire
(d) Japan, Israel, and the Russian Empire

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

3. What word from “The First Hearing” refers to a vicious or depraved person?
(a) Reprimand
(b) Petitioner
(c) Abolitionist
(d) Miscreant

4. When K. first deals with the guards on the morning of his birthday in “The Arrest,” he presumes that this might be a joke played on him by his friends where?
(a) At the bar
(b) At the hospital
(c) At the bank
(d) At the courthouse

5. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “stiff, swinging his arms” and apathetic?
(a) Rabensteiner
(b) Willem
(c) Franz
(d) Kaminer

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time does K. plan to arrive at the courtroom on the day of his first hearing in “The First Hearing”?

2. Where does Frau Grubach say Fraülein Bürstner has gone in the evening when K. returns home in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

3. K. decides when looking for the courtroom in “The First Hearing” to ask around for a carpenter named what?

4. What do the guards offer to fetch for K. “for a small sum of money” in “The Arrest”?

5. K. considers the Deputy Manager’s invitation to his party to be what, in “The First Hearing”?

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