1. To whom does the Usher’s Wife say the books in the courtroom belong to in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
(a) The Chief Clerk
(b) The Examining Magistrate
(c) The Usher
(d) The High Priest

2. What word from “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” refers to a person engaged in a lawsuit?
(a) Elucidate
(b) Liturgy
(c) Litigant
(d) Candidate

3. What is the name of the second guard that tells K. that he’s under arrest in “The Arrest”?
(a) Kaminer
(b) Franz
(c) Hasterer
(d) Willem

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

5. What is Frau Grubach’s relationship to K.?
(a) She is his niece
(b) She is his landlady
(c) She is his mother
(d) She is his aunt

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. Who moves into Fraülein Bürstner’s room with her in the course of the novel?

3. What is the name of the man from the state prosecution office that K. tells the supervisor is his friend in “The Arrest”?

4. K. considers the Deputy Manager’s invitation to his party to be what, in “The First Hearing”?

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

(see the answer key)

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