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

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

3. 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

4. What do the guards offer to fetch for K. “for a small sum of money” in “The Arrest”?
(a) Breakfast
(b) His clothing
(c) His landlady
(d) Lunch

5. The guards tell K. that they are hired to stand guard of him in his apartment how many hours a day in “The Arrest”?
(a) 12
(b) 8
(c) 24
(d) 10

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Fraülein Bürstner say she’s starting work as a secretary at a lawyer’s office when speaking with K. in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

2. What countries comprised the Allied Powers in the beginning of World War I?

3. When did World War I begin?

4. What do the two guards do with K.’s breakfast when it arrives in “The Arrest”?

5. What subordinate bank employee is described in “The Arrest” as having an “intolerable smile caused by a chronic muscular spasm”?

(see the answer key)

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