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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. In the letter from Erna to Uncle Karl, she writes that she visited K. at the bank but wasn’t allowed to see him because he was busy. How long does Erna say she waited?
(a) Almost an hour
(b) Three hours
(c) Almost a whole day
(d) Almost two hours

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

3. What woman is accosted in the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?
(a) The Manufacturer’s Wife
(b) Leni
(c) The Usher’s Wife
(d) Fraülein Bürstner

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”?
(a) Under his bed
(b) In his closet
(c) In his attic
(d) In his wash bin

5. 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) Tomorrow
(b) Next month
(c) Next year
(d) Next week

Short Answer Questions

1. How many flats does the Usher say the student has been kicked out of in this building for sneaking into them to chase women in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

2. What season is described in the opening of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

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 does K. drink shots of from his wall cabinet while the guards watch him in the beginning of “The Arrest”?

5. How old is Erna said to be in “His Uncle – Leni”?

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