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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What subordinate bank employee is described in “The Arrest” as having an “intolerable smile caused by a chronic muscular spasm”?
(a) Willem
(b) Kullych
(c) Franz
(d) Kaminer

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

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

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

6. Speaking to the Usher’s Wife, K. tells her, “You could tell the examining magistrate, or anyone else who likes spreading important news, that none of the many tricks these gentlemen presumably have up their sleeves will ever persuade me to” what?
(a) Confess
(b) Offer a bribe
(c) Plead Innocent
(d) Run from the law

7. Who does K. recall having said “that the court was attracted by guilt” in “The First Hearing”?
(a) Willem
(b) Franz
(c) Rabensteiner
(d) Dr. Huld

8. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “stiff, swinging his arms” and apathetic?
(a) Willem
(b) Franz
(c) Kaminer
(d) Rabensteiner

9. 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) Elsa
(b) Frau Grubach
(c) Fraülein Bürstner
(d) Leni

10. The Deputy Manager invites K. to a party where on the same day as K.’s hearing in the beginning of “The First Hearing”?
(a) On his yacht
(b) At the office
(c) At his estate
(d) At his church

11. 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) Elegant clothes
(b) A telephone
(c) Good sleeping quarters
(d) A nice haircut

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

13. What countries comprised the Central Powers in the beginning of World War I?
(a) France, Spain, and Germany
(b) Japan, Israel, and the Russian Empire
(c) The United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire
(d) Germany and Austria-Hungary

14. 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?
(a) Examining Magistrates
(b) Court Ushers
(c) Jury Members
(d) Thrashers

15. What word from “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” refers to a person engaged in a lawsuit?
(a) Litigant
(b) Liturgy
(c) Elucidate
(d) Candidate

Short Answer Questions

1. When he goes to demonstrate what happened this morning for Fraülein Bürstner in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach,” K. notes that what was hanging by the window in her room at the time of the inquiry?

2. In the ending of “The Thrasher,” K. waits to ensure he’s alone as he leaves his office, then goes home “weary and his mind” what?

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. The first book in the courtroom that K. looks at in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” is a book of what?

5. What word refers to a fictional society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening?

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