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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Clothing advertisements
(b) Household chores
(c) Poetry
(d) Pornography

2. 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) At his church
(b) At his estate
(c) At the office
(d) On his yacht

3. 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 Tuesday
(b) The next Thursday
(c) The next Sunday
(d) The next Monday

4. What does K. tell the messengers the sound is from when the guards scream as they’re beaten in “The Thrasher”?
(a) An owl passing the window
(b) A howling dog
(c) Him sneezing
(d) A woman in the alley

5. 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

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

7. Which of the guards comes to K. and says, “If you can’t get both of us spared, then at least try to get him to let me go” in “The Thrasher”?
(a) Franz
(b) Rabensteiner
(c) Willem
(d) Kullych

8. What is K.’s position at the bank where he works in the novel?
(a) Chief Financial Officer
(b) Morning desk clerk
(c) Vice-President
(d) President

9. What is Frau Grubach’s relationship to K.?
(a) She is his aunt
(b) She is his mother
(c) She is his niece
(d) She is his landlady

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

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

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

13. What woman is accosted in the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?
(a) The Usher’s Wife
(b) The Manufacturer’s Wife
(c) Leni
(d) Fraülein Bürstner

14. What word from “The First Hearing” refers to a vicious or depraved person?
(a) Miscreant
(b) Reprimand
(c) Abolitionist
(d) Petitioner

15. K. points out to Fraülein Bürstner that Frau Grubach is dependent on him for what reason in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) He was a witness to a crime she committed
(b) She is desperate to marry his father
(c) She’s borrowed a large sum of money from him
(d) She is his only heir

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. What is the name of the strange guard that opens K.’s door when he rings for his breakfast in the beginning of “The Arrest”?

3. The Examining Magistrate asks K. if he is what when he begins questioning him in “The First Hearing”?

4. What word from “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” means to break away from constituted authority?

5. What does K. do before leaving Fraülein Bürstner’s room in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

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