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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It is K.’s birthday in the opening of “The Arrest.” How old is K. turning?
(a) 28
(b) 31
(c) 32
(d) 30

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

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

4. 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) Rubes
(c) Blackguards
(d) Court-royals

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The Deputy Manager invites K. to a party where on the same day as K.’s hearing in the beginning of “The First Hearing”?

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

4. When K. leaves Fräulein Bürstner’s room at the end of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach,” he thinks “for a while about the way he had behaved; he was” what?

5. Where does K. see Rabensteiner and Kullich on his way to the hearing in “The First Hearing”?

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