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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 woman is accosted in the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?
(a) Fraülein Bürstner
(b) The Manufacturer’s Wife
(c) Leni
(d) The Usher’s Wife

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

3. When Fraülein Bürstner looks around her room for any signs of disorder after returning home, she remarks that what “have been messed up” in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) Her photographs
(b) Her pillows
(c) Her dresses
(d) Her carpets

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

5. K. considers the Deputy Manager’s invitation to his party to be what, in “The First Hearing”?
(a) A false invitation
(b) An olive branch
(c) An inside joke
(d) An ironic twist

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What season is described in the opening of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

3. When does Fraülein Bürstner say she’s starting work as a secretary at a lawyer’s office when speaking with K. in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

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

5. What subordinate bank employee is described in “The Arrest” as having an “intolerable smile caused by a chronic muscular spasm”?

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