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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 strange guard that opens K.’s door when he rings for his breakfast in the beginning of “The Arrest”?
(a) Franz
(b) Kullych
(c) Kaminer
(d) Willem

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 blouse
(c) A hat
(d) A coat

3. Where does K. see Rabensteiner and Kullich on his way to the hearing in “The First Hearing”?
(a) At a café
(b) On a train
(c) At the library
(d) On a bus

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. What word from “The First Hearing” refers to a child’s apron or woman’s sleeveless garment worn over a dress?
(a) Petticoat
(b) Pinafore
(c) Doublet
(d) Pantaloon

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Who does K. recall having said “that the court was attracted by guilt” in “The First Hearing”?

4. K. points out to Fraülein Bürstner that Frau Grubach is dependent on him for what reason in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

5. What word refers to a fictional society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening?

(see the answer key)

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