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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Thrasher.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states in the beginning of “The First Hearing” that “K. had been informed by telephone that a short hearing in his affair would take place” when?
(a) The next Tuesday
(b) The next Thursday
(c) The next Monday
(d) The next Sunday

2. The Examining Magistrate asks K. if he is what when he begins questioning him in “The First Hearing”?
(a) A teacher and scholar
(b) A painter and decorator
(c) A bus driver and teacher
(d) A cab driver and mechanic

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

4. On what day of the week does K. return to the courtroom in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
(a) Saturday
(b) Sunday
(c) Tuesday
(d) Thursday

5. What is the name of the student that the Usher’s Wife says has been pursuing her for some time in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
(a) Bertold
(b) Hasterer
(c) Willem
(d) Franz

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The Deputy Manager invites K. to a party where on the same day as K.’s hearing in the beginning of “The First Hearing”?

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

5. When K. is met by scowling children on his way up the stairs to the courtroom in “The First Hearing,” he thinks to himself, “If I have to come here again, I’ll either have to bring some sweets, to win them over, or” what?

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