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

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”?
(a) 24
(b) 10
(c) 12
(d) 8

3. 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) Kullych
(b) Kaminer
(c) Franz
(d) Willem

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

5. What is the name of the man from the state prosecution office that K. tells the supervisor is his friend in “The Arrest”?
(a) Kaminer
(b) Kullych
(c) Hasterer
(d) Block

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “stiff, swinging his arms” and apathetic?

2. Of the proceedings against him, K. tells the Examining Magistrate, “[L]et us say I do recognize them, out of” what?

3. At what time does K. plan to arrive at the courtroom on the day of his first hearing in “The First Hearing”?

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

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

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