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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Frau Block
(b) Fraülein Montag
(c) Fräulein Bürstner
(d) The Usher's Wife

2. When he goes to demonstrate what happened this morning for Fraülein Bürstner in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach,” K. notes that what was hanging by the window in her room at the time of the inquiry?
(a) A curtain
(b) A coat
(c) A blouse
(d) A hat

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

4. When does the Examining Magistrate in the courtroom say K. should have been there when K. arrives in “The First Hearing”?
(a) Thirty minutes ago
(b) An hour and five minutes ago
(c) Two and a half hours ago
(d) Two hours and ten minutes ago

5. 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”?
(a) White
(b) Blue
(c) Gray
(d) Black

Short Answer Questions

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

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

4. The supervisor who enters K.’s home after the guards in “The Arrest” tells him, “Think less about us and what is going to happen to you, think more about” what?

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

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