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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 is the name of the second guard that tells K. that he’s under arrest in “The Arrest”?
(a) Hasterer
(b) Kaminer
(c) Franz
(d) Willem

2. 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?
(a) The next Thursday
(b) The next Tuesday
(c) The next Sunday
(d) The next Monday

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

4. What does K. drink shots of from his wall cabinet while the guards watch him in the beginning of “The Arrest”?
(a) Whiskey
(b) Gin
(c) Schnapps
(d) Vodka

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from “The First Hearing” refers to a child’s apron or woman’s sleeveless garment worn over a dress?

2. When does the Examining Magistrate in the courtroom say K. should have been there when K. arrives in “The First Hearing”?

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

4. On what street is K.’s courtroom said to be located in “The First Hearing”?

5. When Fraülein Bürstner looks around her room for any signs of disorder after returning home, she remarks that what “have been messed up” in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

(see the answer key)

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