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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. Where does K. see Rabensteiner and Kullich on his way to the hearing in “The First Hearing”?
(a) On a train
(b) On a bus
(c) At a café
(d) At the library

2. What is written on the piece of paper “in clumsy, childish handwriting” by the stairwell to the loft in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
(a) Staircase to the Judge’s Secret Chambers
(b) Staircase to the Court Offices
(c) Staircase to the Front Exit
(d) Staircase to the Local Prison

3. When did World War I begin?
(a) September 2, 1911
(b) June 30, 1915
(c) July 28, 1914
(d) January 16, 1912

4. 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?
(a) My steel-toed boots to kick them
(b) Some teacakes from my house
(c) My stick to beat them
(d) My pocketbook to pay them

5. Describing his early submissions in his trial, Herr Block tells K. that much of it was written in what language in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?
(a) Latin
(b) English
(c) French
(d) German

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Uncle Karl know Huld from?

2. What does K. say repeatedly to the woman and man who help him out of the Court Offices in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

3. The Thrasher tells K. when he discovers him getting ready to beat the guards, “You shouldn’t believe everything they say. Their fear of being beaten has made them a little” what?

4. To whom does K. say in “The Thrasher,” “It’s about time you cleared out that lumber-room. We’re drowning in filth”?

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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