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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what time does Fraülein Bürstner return home in the evening as K. waits for her arrival in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) 11:00
(b) 11:30
(c) 1:30
(d) 12:00

2. What public prosecutor does the Deputy Manager say is coming to his party in the beginning of “The First Hearing”?
(a) Hasterer
(b) Rabensteiner
(c) Dr. Huld
(d) Kaminer

3. Who does K. recall having said “that the court was attracted by guilt” in “The First Hearing”?
(a) Rabensteiner
(b) Dr. Huld
(c) Franz
(d) Willem

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) Rubes
(b) Blackguards
(c) Jesters
(d) Court-royals

5. K. points out to Fraülein Bürstner that Frau Grubach is dependent on him for what reason in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) She is his only heir
(b) She is desperate to marry his father
(c) She’s borrowed a large sum of money from him
(d) He was a witness to a crime she committed

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Frau Grubach’s relationship to K.?

2. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “stiff, swinging his arms” and apathetic?

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

4. Where does K. see Kaminer on his way to the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?

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

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