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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter.

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 Sunday
(b) The next Monday
(c) The next Thursday
(d) The next Tuesday

2. The Manufacturer tells K. in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter” that he heard about K.’s trial from Titorelli. What is Titorelli’s profession?
(a) He is a court usher
(b) He is a lawyer
(c) He is a painter
(d) He is a judge

3. How old is the girl that K. asks in the stairwell whether Titorelli lives in the building in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?
(a) 6
(b) 13
(c) 11
(d) 9

4. The supervisor who enters K.’s home after the guards in “The Arrest” tells him, “Think less about us and what is going to happen to you, think more about” what?
(a) Your employees
(b) Your wife
(c) Your family
(d) Yourself instead

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who moves into Fraülein Bürstner’s room with her in the course of the novel?

2. What is K.’s position at the bank where he works in the novel?

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

4. What countries comprised the Central Powers in the beginning of World War I?

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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