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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 9
(b) 13
(c) 6
(d) 11

2. When Fraülein Bürstner looks around her room for any signs of disorder after returning home, she remarks that what “have been messed up” in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) Her carpets
(b) Her photographs
(c) Her dresses
(d) Her pillows

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

4. When K. enters the hallway to see what the crashing sound was at Herr Huld’s home, Huld’s maid tells K. that the noise was caused by what, in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) A dog crashing into the kitchen
(b) An intruder trying to break into the house
(c) Her throwing a plate against the wall
(d) Her dropping the tea set

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Usher tells K. as they pass through the waiting room of the Court Offices in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices,” “Most of the defendants are very” what?

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

3. How is Erna related to K.’s Uncle Karl?

4. Titorelli describes one of the tenement children as having hidden where in his apartment the previous night in “The Lawyer – The Factory-Owner – The Painter”?

5. What subordinate bank employee is described in “The Arrest” as having an “intolerable smile caused by a chronic muscular spasm”?

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