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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Examining Magistrate asks K. if he is what when he begins questioning him in “The First Hearing”?
(a) A cab driver and mechanic
(b) A painter and decorator
(c) A teacher and scholar
(d) A bus driver and teacher

3. 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) Piteous either
(b) Empathetic either
(c) Commendable either
(d) Irreproachable either

4. Where does K. see Kaminer on his way to the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?
(a) On a train
(b) At a café
(c) On a bus
(d) At the library

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

6. 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) Satisfied with it
(b) Uncomfortable but serene
(c) Deeply troubled by it
(d) Worried sick about it

7. 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) Insensitive
(b) Sensitive
(c) Judicial
(d) Anxious

8. K. hears groans coming from behind a door in his office building that “he had always assumed, without having actually seen it himself, that there was nothing but” what, in “The Thrasher”?
(a) A lumber-room
(b) A chimney exit
(c) Stairs to the basement
(d) Stairs to the attic

9. The guards tell K. that they are hired to stand guard of him in his apartment how many hours a day in “The Arrest”?
(a) 24
(b) 10
(c) 8
(d) 12

10. What is the name of the second guard that tells K. that he’s under arrest in “The Arrest”?
(a) Willem
(b) Hasterer
(c) Kaminer
(d) Franz

11. Which of the guards does the Thrasher say got fat from eating breakfasts at all his arrests in “The Thrasher”?
(a) Willem
(b) Kullych
(c) Franz
(d) Hasterer

12. The woman who moves in with Fraülein Bürstner holds what profession?
(a) She is a teacher
(b) She is a lawyer
(c) She is a secretary
(d) She is a banker

13. What word refers to a fictional society that is in some important way undesirable or frightening?
(a) Dystopia
(b) Utopia
(c) Malatopia
(d) Malfunction

14. 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) Poetry
(c) Pornography
(d) Household chores

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. K. decides when looking for the courtroom in “The First Hearing” to ask around for a carpenter named what?

3. What public prosecutor does the Deputy Manager say is coming to his party in the beginning of “The First Hearing”?

4. What season is described in the opening of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

5. The second book that K. examines in the courtroom in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” is a novel titled what?

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