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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is K.’s first name in the novel?
(a) James
(b) Franz
(c) Peter
(d) Josef

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?
(a) At the hospital
(b) At the courthouse
(c) At the bar
(d) At the bank

3. Whose cook is said to bring K. his breakfast around eight every morning in “The Arrest”?
(a) Frau Grubach’s
(b) Rudi Block’s
(c) Fraülein Bürstner’s
(d) Dr. Huld’s

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

5. Who moves into Fraülein Bürstner’s room with her in the course of the novel?
(a) Frau Grubach
(b) Rabensteiner
(c) Fraülein Montag
(d) The Manufacturer

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

7. 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) Franz
(b) Willem
(c) Hasterer
(d) Bertold

8. How many messengers are said to still be “working in dispatch in the little circle from a lamp” at K.’s offices in the beginning of “The Thrasher” as he leaves work?
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 3

9. By what method of transportation does K. travel to work in the morning in “The Arrest”?
(a) By bicycle
(b) By train
(c) By bus
(d) By taxi

10. What character is described in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach” as a girl “who worked serving in a wine-bar during the night and well into the morning, and during the daytime only received visitors from her bed”?
(a) Fraülein Bürstner
(b) Frau Grubach
(c) Elsa
(d) Leni

11. Whose claim that his fiancée is waiting for him outside turns out to be a lie in “The Thrasher”?
(a) Willem’s
(b) Titorelli’s
(c) Franz’s
(d) Kullych’s

12. At what time does K. plan to arrive at the courtroom on the day of his first hearing in “The First Hearing”?
(a) 6
(b) 8
(c) 9
(d) 7

13. What do the guards offer to fetch for K. “for a small sum of money” in “The Arrest”?
(a) His clothing
(b) His landlady
(c) Breakfast
(d) Lunch

14. 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) A dozen roses
(b) A necklace
(c) Silk stockings
(d) A box of chocolates

15. K. decides when looking for the courtroom in “The First Hearing” to ask around for a carpenter named what?
(a) Lanz.
(b) Titorelli
(c) Willem
(d) Huld

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “stiff, swinging his arms” and apathetic?

2. Where does K. see Kaminer on his way to the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?

3. 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”?

4. What is Frau Grubach’s relationship to K.?

5. The narrator describes K. as generally staying at the office until what time in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

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