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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 does K. do before leaving Fraülein Bürstner’s room in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) He shouts angrily at her
(b) He kisses her
(c) He spits at her
(d) He slaps her

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

3. Where does Fraülein Bürstner say Frau Grubach’s nephew is sleeping in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) In the living room
(b) In the kitchen
(c) In the basement
(d) In the adjoining bedroom

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

5. The next room to K.’s in “The Arrest” has been taken by “a typist, who went off to work very early and came back late.” What is this character’s name?
(a) Fraülein Montag
(b) The Usher's Wife
(c) Fräulein Bürstner
(d) Frau Block

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The young woman in the Court Offices tells K. in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices,” “We, that is the staff here, decided that the information clerk, who is constantly dealing with the public and is their first contact with the court, ought to be given” what?

3. What is the name of the second guard that tells K. that he’s under arrest in “The Arrest”?

4. 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”?

5. Where does K. see Rabensteiner and Kullich on his way to the hearing in “The First Hearing”?

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