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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 wife
(b) Your family
(c) Yourself instead
(d) Your employees

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

4. On what day of the week does K. return to the courtroom in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
(a) Sunday
(b) Saturday
(c) Tuesday
(d) Thursday

5. When K. leaves Fräulein Bürstner’s room at the end of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach,” he thinks “for a while about the way he had behaved; he was” what?
(a) Uncomfortable but serene
(b) Worried sick about it
(c) Deeply troubled by it
(d) Satisfied with it

6. Of the proceedings against him, K. tells the Examining Magistrate, “[L]et us say I do recognize them, out of” what?
(a) Redemption
(b) Fear
(c) Irony
(d) Pity

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

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

9. When did World War I begin?
(a) June 30, 1915
(b) September 2, 1911
(c) July 28, 1914
(d) January 16, 1912

10. Where does Frau Grubach say Fraülein Bürstner has gone in the evening when K. returns home in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) To her lover’s house
(b) To the theatre
(c) To a jazz bar
(d) To church

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

12. 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?
(a) On a brink
(b) Racing
(c) Enraptured
(d) A blank

13. What season is described in the opening of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) Summer
(b) Winter
(c) Spring
(d) Autumn

14. The Usher tells K. as they pass through the waiting room of the Court Offices in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices,” “Most of the defendants are very” what?
(a) Anxious
(b) Insensitive
(c) Sensitive
(d) Judicial

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. 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?

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

4. The next room to K.’s in “The Arrest” has been taken by “a typist, who went off to work very early and came back late.” What is this character’s name?

5. What word from “The Thrasher” refers to a dishonest, knavish person?

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