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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. What word refers to a fictional society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening?
(a) Dystopia
(b) Utopia
(c) Malfunction
(d) Malatopia

2. What is the name of the man from the state prosecution office that K. tells the supervisor is his friend in “The Arrest”?
(a) Block
(b) Kullych
(c) Hasterer
(d) Kaminer

3. Huld’s maid tell K. in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer,” “I neither want nor need any other reward than for you to” what?
(a) Marry me
(b) Eat this soup
(c) Be fond of me
(d) Be free

4. What word from “The Thrasher” means to secure or bring about by force?
(a) Obstruct
(b) Impede
(c) Arbitrate
(d) Compel

5. 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) 5
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 4

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from “The First Hearing” refers to a child’s apron or woman’s sleeveless garment worn over a dress?

2. In the end of “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer,” Leni tells Block to leave what alone and listen to the lawyer?

3. 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”?

4. What is the name of Frau Grubach’s nephew?

5. K. decides when looking for the courtroom in “The First Hearing” to ask around for a carpenter named what?

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