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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does K. see Rabensteiner and Kullich on his way to the hearing in “The First Hearing”?
(a) On a bus
(b) On a train
(c) At the library
(d) At a café

2. What word from “The Thrasher” means to secure or bring about by force?
(a) Impede
(b) Compel
(c) Obstruct
(d) Arbitrate

3. What does K. find when he opens the door in his office the second time where he’d previously seen the thrasher and the guards in “The Thrasher”?
(a) There is a judge beating the Thrasher there
(b) There is no sign of the Thrasher or the guards
(c) The courtroom has appeared in the room
(d) The Thrasher and the guards are still there

4. When Fraülein Bürstner looks around her room for any signs of disorder after returning home, she remarks that what “have been messed up” in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) Her carpets
(b) Her pillows
(c) Her dresses
(d) Her photographs

5. What is the name of Frau Grubach’s nephew?
(a) Leni
(b) Rabensteiner
(c) Lanz
(d) Hasterer

6. When K. is met by scowling children on his way up the stairs to the courtroom in “The First Hearing,” he thinks to himself, “If I have to come here again, I’ll either have to bring some sweets, to win them over, or” what?
(a) My steel-toed boots to kick them
(b) My pocketbook to pay them
(c) Some teacakes from my house
(d) My stick to beat them

7. One of the guards being thrashed in “The Thrasher” tells K. that “it’s a tradition that” what “goes to the guards”?
(a) The landlady
(b) The linen
(c) The coffers
(d) Breakfast

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

9. K. tells the guards who are to be thrashed in “The Thrasher,” “I didn’t complain, I just said what had happened in my apartment. And your behavior wasn’t exactly” what?
(a) Irreproachable either
(b) Empathetic either
(c) Commendable either
(d) Piteous either

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

11. The second book that K. examines in the courtroom in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” is a novel titled what?
(a) The Torments Grete Had to Suffer from her Husband Hans
(b) Little Women
(c) The Torrential Downpour upon the Ungrateful and Unworthy
(d) The Trial

12. 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) 4
(c) 5
(d) 3

13. 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) Offer a bribe
(b) Run from the law
(c) Plead Innocent
(d) Confess

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

15. 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 basement
(d) In the adjoining bedroom

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the man from the state prosecution office that K. tells the supervisor is his friend in “The Arrest”?

3. 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”?

4. Who does K. recall having said “that the court was attracted by guilt” in “The First Hearing”?

5. 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”?

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