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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The guards at K.’s house tell him that his jacket for the meeting with the supervisor must be what color in the beginning of “The Arrest”?
(a) Gray
(b) Blue
(c) White
(d) Black

3. Of the proceedings against him, K. tells the Examining Magistrate, “[L]et us say I do recognize them, out of” what?
(a) Redemption
(b) Fear
(c) Irony
(d) Pity

4. What word from “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” means to break away from constituted authority?
(a) Denial
(b) Revolt
(c) Constituency
(d) Apparition

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does K. say in “The Thrasher,” “It’s about time you cleared out that lumber-room. We’re drowning in filth”?

2. What does K. tell the messengers the sound is from when the guards scream as they’re beaten in “The Thrasher”?

3. What character is described in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach” as a girl “who worked serving in a wine-bar during the night and well into the morning, and during the daytime only received visitors from her bed”?

4. K. hears groans coming from behind a door in his office building that “he had always assumed, without having actually seen it himself, that there was nothing but” what, in “The Thrasher”?

5. 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?

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