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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It is the day before K.’s birthday to turn how old in the opening of “The End”?
(a) 32
(b) 29
(c) 30
(d) 31

2. What is the name of the student that the Usher’s Wife says has been pursuing her for some time in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
(a) Hasterer
(b) Willem
(c) Franz
(d) Bertold

3. Which of the guards does the Thrasher say got fat from eating breakfasts at all his arrests in “The Thrasher”?
(a) Kullych
(b) Franz
(c) Willem
(d) Hasterer

4. What sound is described in “Block, the Corn Merchant – The Dismissal of the Lawyer” as signifying the start of one’s trial?
(a) A woman’s scream
(b) A bell ring
(c) A gavel thump
(d) A whistle blow

5. By what nickname does the narrator say K. used to refer to his uncle as in “His Uncle – Leni”?
(a) The Elder from the Mountains
(b) The Ghost from the Country
(c) The Wandering Gypsy
(d) The Old Man on the Hill

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. When K. first deals with the guards on the morning of his birthday in “The Arrest,” he presumes that this might be a joke played on him by his friends where?

3. What is K. carrying with him when he goes to the cathedral in “In the Cathedral”?

4. 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”?

5. One of the guards being thrashed in “The Thrasher” says that he and his partner had prospects of being promoted to what position before getting into trouble?

(see the answer key)

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