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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) 31
(b) 30
(c) 32
(d) 28

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”?
(a) At the office
(b) At his church
(c) At his estate
(d) On his yacht

3. What word refers to a fictional society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening?
(a) Utopia
(b) Malfunction
(c) Malatopia
(d) Dystopia

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

5. The Examining Magistrate asks K. if he is what when he begins questioning him in “The First Hearing”?
(a) A painter and decorator
(b) A bus driver and teacher
(c) A teacher and scholar
(d) A cab driver and mechanic

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 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?

3. The narrator describes K. as generally staying at the office until what time in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

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

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

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