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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does K. drink shots of from his wall cabinet while the guards watch him in the beginning of “The Arrest”?
(a) Schnapps
(b) Whiskey
(c) Vodka
(d) Gin

3. When does the Examining Magistrate in the courtroom say K. should have been there when K. arrives in “The First Hearing”?
(a) An hour and five minutes ago
(b) Thirty minutes ago
(c) Two hours and ten minutes ago
(d) Two and a half hours ago

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

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

6. The supervisor who enters K.’s home after the guards in “The Arrest” tells him, “Think less about us and what is going to happen to you, think more about” what?
(a) Your employees
(b) Your wife
(c) Your family
(d) Yourself instead

7. 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 courthouse
(b) At the bar
(c) At the bank
(d) At the hospital

8. What word from “The Thrasher” refers to a dishonest, knavish person?
(a) Conquistador
(b) Protagonist
(c) Hector
(d) Rogue

9. 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?
(a) Good sleeping quarters
(b) A nice haircut
(c) Elegant clothes
(d) A telephone

10. The narrator states in the beginning of “The First Hearing” that “K. had been informed by telephone that a short hearing in his affair would take place” when?
(a) The next Thursday
(b) The next Monday
(c) The next Tuesday
(d) The next Sunday

11. On what street is K.’s courtroom said to be located in “The First Hearing”?
(a) Kopenhagener Strasse
(b) Juliusstrasse
(c) Ringstrasse
(d) Friedrichstrasse

12. K. considers the Deputy Manager’s invitation to his party to be what, in “The First Hearing”?
(a) An inside joke
(b) An olive branch
(c) A false invitation
(d) An ironic twist

13. The guards at K.’s house tell him that his jacket for the meeting with the supervisor must be what color in the beginning of “The Arrest”?
(a) Blue
(b) Black
(c) White
(d) Gray

14. What do the two guards do with K.’s breakfast when it arrives in “The Arrest”?
(a) They give it to K
(b) They eat it
(c) They send it back
(d) They throw it out the window

15. 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) Franz
(c) Willem
(d) Bertold

Short Answer Questions

1. The Deputy Manager invites K. to a party where on the same day as K.’s hearing in the beginning of “The First Hearing”?

2. What countries comprised the Allied Powers in the beginning of World War I?

3. What word from “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” refers to a person engaged in a lawsuit?

4. 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?

5. What is K.’s first name in the novel?

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