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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 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”?
(a) Jesters
(b) Blackguards
(c) Court-royals
(d) Rubes

2. What is the name of the man from the state prosecution office that K. tells the supervisor is his friend in “The Arrest”?
(a) Block
(b) Kaminer
(c) Hasterer
(d) Kullych

3. K. considers the Deputy Manager’s invitation to his party to be what, in “The First Hearing”?
(a) A false invitation
(b) An inside joke
(c) An olive branch
(d) An ironic twist

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

5. 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 hospital
(b) At the bar
(c) At the courthouse
(d) At the bank

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. The guards tell K. that they are hired to stand guard of him in his apartment how many hours a day in “The Arrest”?

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?

4. The Examining Magistrate asks K. if he is what when he begins questioning him in “The First Hearing”?

5. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “stiff, swinging his arms” and apathetic?

(see the answer key)

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