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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 subordinate bank employee is described in “The Arrest” as having an “intolerable smile caused by a chronic muscular spasm”?
(a) Willem
(b) Franz
(c) Kaminer
(d) Kullych

2. Whose cook is said to bring K. his breakfast around eight every morning in “The Arrest”?
(a) Rudi Block’s
(b) Fraülein Bürstner’s
(c) Frau Grubach’s
(d) Dr. Huld’s

3. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “blond with deep-set eyes”?
(a) Rabensteiner
(b) Kullich
(c) Franz
(d) Willem

4. Where does Fraülein Bürstner say Frau Grubach’s nephew is sleeping in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) In the kitchen
(b) In the basement
(c) In the living room
(d) In the adjoining bedroom

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the second guard that tells K. that he’s under arrest in “The Arrest”?

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

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

4. When K. is met by scowling children on his way up the stairs to the courtroom in “The First Hearing,” he thinks to himself, “If I have to come here again, I’ll either have to bring some sweets, to win them over, or” what?

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?

(see the answer key)

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