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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 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 hat
(b) A coat
(c) A curtain
(d) A blouse

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

3. The narrator describes K. as generally staying at the office until what time in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) 8
(b) 10
(c) 9
(d) 11

4. What character is described in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach” as a girl “who worked serving in a wine-bar during the night and well into the morning, and during the daytime only received visitors from her bed”?
(a) Elsa
(b) Fraülein Bürstner
(c) Frau Grubach
(d) Leni

5. What countries comprised the Central Powers in the beginning of World War I?
(a) Japan, Israel, and the Russian Empire
(b) The United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire
(c) France, Spain, and Germany
(d) Germany and Austria-Hungary

Short Answer 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”?

2. 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?

3. It is K.’s birthday in the opening of “The Arrest.” How old is K. turning?

4. On what street is K.’s courtroom said to be located in “The First Hearing”?

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

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