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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did World War I begin?
(a) June 30, 1915
(b) September 2, 1911
(c) January 16, 1912
(d) July 28, 1914

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. 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 his church
(b) At his estate
(c) On his yacht
(d) At the office

4. 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 Monday
(c) The next Sunday
(d) The next Tuesday

5. When K. leaves Fräulein Bürstner’s room at the end of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach,” he thinks “for a while about the way he had behaved; he was” what?
(a) Uncomfortable but serene
(b) Satisfied with it
(c) Deeply troubled by it
(d) Worried sick about it

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the two guards do with K.’s breakfast when it arrives in “The Arrest”?

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

3. The guards at K.’s house tell him that his jacket for the meeting with the supervisor must be what color in the beginning of “The Arrest”?

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

5. 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”?

(see the answer key)

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