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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. What is K.’s first name in the novel?
(a) Peter
(b) Franz
(c) James
(d) Josef

3. K. considers the Deputy Manager’s invitation to his party to be what, in “The First Hearing”?
(a) An olive branch
(b) A false invitation
(c) An ironic twist
(d) An inside joke

4. 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 stick to beat them
(c) Some teacakes from my house
(d) My pocketbook to pay them

5. 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) The courtroom has appeared in the room
(b) The Thrasher and the guards are still there
(c) There is no sign of the Thrasher or the guards
(d) There is a judge beating the Thrasher there

6. 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 Torrential Downpour upon the Ungrateful and Unworthy
(b) The Torments Grete Had to Suffer from her Husband Hans
(c) Little Women
(d) The Trial

7. 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

8. What name, meaning the servants of an army, does K. call the Examining Magistrate and the others of the courtroom as he exits in “The First Hearing”?
(a) Jesters
(b) Blackguards
(c) Court-royals
(d) Rubes

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

10. 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) Deeply troubled by it
(c) Uncomfortable but serene
(d) Worried sick about it

11. The defendant that K. speaks to in the Court Offices in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” says he made several applications for evidence to be produced in his case when?
(a) A week ago
(b) A month ago
(c) A year ago
(d) Yesterday

12. 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?
(a) A hat
(b) A coat
(c) A blouse
(d) A curtain

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

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

15. Where does Fraülein Bürstner say Frau Grubach’s nephew is sleeping in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) In the basement
(b) In the kitchen
(c) In the living room
(d) In the adjoining bedroom

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Frau Grubach say Fraülein Bürstner has gone in the evening when K. returns home in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

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. It is K.’s birthday in the opening of “The Arrest.” How old is K. turning?

4. 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”?

5. What countries comprised the Allied Powers in the beginning of World War I?

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