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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Thrasher.
Multiple Choice 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”?
(a) Next month
(b) Next week
(c) Tomorrow
(d) Next year
2. How many messengers are said to still be “working in dispatch in the little circle from a lamp” at K.’s offices in the beginning of “The Thrasher” as he leaves work?
(a) 4
(b) 3
(c) 5
(d) 2
3. K. tells the guards who are to be thrashed in “The Thrasher,” “I didn’t complain, I just said what had happened in my apartment. And your behavior wasn’t exactly” what?
(a) Irreproachable either
(b) Empathetic either
(c) Commendable either
(d) Piteous either
4. What word from “The Thrasher” refers to a dishonest, knavish person?
(a) Conquistador
(b) Rogue
(c) Protagonist
(d) Hector
5. Speaking to the Usher’s Wife, K. tells her, “You could tell the examining magistrate, or anyone else who likes spreading important news, that none of the many tricks these gentlemen presumably have up their sleeves will ever persuade me to” what?
(a) Offer a bribe
(b) Plead Innocent
(c) Confess
(d) Run from the law
Short Answer Questions
1. When K. first deals with the guards on the morning of his birthday in “The Arrest,” he presumes that this might be a joke played on him by his friends where?
2. On what street is K.’s courtroom said to be located in “The First Hearing”?
3. 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?
4. Of the proceedings against him, K. tells the Examining Magistrate, “[L]et us say I do recognize them, out of” what?
5. 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”?
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