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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. Of the proceedings against him, K. tells the Examining Magistrate, “[L]et us say I do recognize them, out of” what?
(a) Pity
(b) Irony
(c) Redemption
(d) Fear

3. What season is described in the opening of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) Autumn
(b) Spring
(c) Summer
(d) Winter

4. Where does K. see Kaminer on his way to the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?
(a) At a café
(b) On a train
(c) On a bus
(d) At the library

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

Short Answer 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”?

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

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

4. When did World War I begin?

5. What do the guards offer to fetch for K. “for a small sum of money” in “The Arrest”?

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