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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word used in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” refers to a complete change of form, structure, or substance?
(a) Equipoise
(b) Stasis
(c) Parity
(d) Metamorphosis

2. What public prosecutor does the Deputy Manager say is coming to his party in the beginning of “The First Hearing”?
(a) Kaminer
(b) Dr. Huld
(c) Hasterer
(d) Rabensteiner

3. Who moves into Fraülein Bürstner’s room with her in the course of the novel?
(a) Fraülein Montag
(b) Frau Grubach
(c) The Manufacturer
(d) Rabensteiner

4. 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) Deeply troubled by it
(c) Satisfied with it
(d) Worried sick about it

5. K. decides when looking for the courtroom in “The First Hearing” to ask around for a carpenter named what?
(a) Willem
(b) Huld
(c) Titorelli
(d) Lanz.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did World War I begin?

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

4. The first book in the courtroom that K. looks at in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” is a book of what?

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

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