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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What countries comprised the Central Powers in the beginning of World War I?
(a) Japan, Israel, and the Russian Empire
(b) The United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire
(c) France, Spain, and Germany
(d) Germany and Austria-Hungary

2. 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”?
(a) Next week
(b) Next year
(c) Next month
(d) Tomorrow

3. 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”?
(a) A lumber-room
(b) A chimney exit
(c) Stairs to the basement
(d) Stairs to the attic

4. What subordinate bank employee is described in “The Arrest” as having an “intolerable smile caused by a chronic muscular spasm”?
(a) Franz
(b) Willem
(c) Kaminer
(d) Kullych

5. What season is described in the opening of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) Spring
(b) Winter
(c) Summer
(d) Autumn

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “blond with deep-set eyes”?

2. The Usher’s Wife tells K. that yesterday, the Examining Magistrate sent the student to her with a gift of what in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

3. What is K.’s first name in the novel?

4. One of the guards being thrashed in “The Thrasher” tells K. that “it’s a tradition that” what “goes to the guards”?

5. The Examining Magistrate asks K. if he is what when he begins questioning him in “The First Hearing”?

(see the answer key)

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