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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The End.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Of the proceedings against him, K. tells the Examining Magistrate, “[L]et us say I do recognize them, out of” what?
(a) Redemption
(b) Fear
(c) Pity
(d) Irony

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

4. 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?
(a) Judicial
(b) Anxious
(c) Sensitive
(d) Insensitive

5. The Usher’s Wife tells K. that yesterday, the Examining Magistrate sent the student to her with a gift of what in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
(a) Silk stockings
(b) A box of chocolates
(c) A necklace
(d) A dozen roses

Short Answer Questions

1. What does K. find when he opens the door in his office the second time where he’d previously seen the thrasher and the guards in “The Thrasher”?

2. It is the day before K.’s birthday to turn how old in the opening of “The End”?

3. When does the Examining Magistrate in the courtroom say K. should have been there when K. arrives in “The First Hearing”?

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”?

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

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