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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 many unregistered lawyers does Herr Block say he has working on his case in addition to Herr Huld in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer”?
(a) 4
(b) 5
(c) 2
(d) 6

2. 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) My pocketbook to pay them
(c) Some teacakes from my house
(d) My stick to beat them

3. What word from “The First Hearing” refers to a vicious or depraved person?
(a) Petitioner
(b) Abolitionist
(c) Miscreant
(d) Reprimand

4. 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 two hours
(b) Almost a whole day
(c) Almost an hour
(d) Three hours

5. Where does Fraülein Bürstner say Frau Grubach’s nephew is sleeping in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) In the living room
(b) In the kitchen
(c) In the adjoining bedroom
(d) In the basement

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the guards offer to fetch for K. “for a small sum of money” in “The Arrest”?

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

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

4. What word from “The Thrasher” refers to a dishonest, knavish person?

5. What does Herr Huld’s maid tell K. is the only way of escaping the legal problems K. is facing in “His Uncle – Leni”?

(see the answer key)

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