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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 banker
(d) She is a secretary

2. 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) Blackguards
(b) Court-royals
(c) Rubes
(d) Jesters

3. When does the Examining Magistrate in the courtroom say K. should have been there when K. arrives in “The First Hearing”?
(a) Thirty minutes ago
(b) Two hours and ten minutes ago
(c) Two and a half hours ago
(d) An hour and five minutes ago

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

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

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

7. 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 dresses
(b) Her photographs
(c) Her carpets
(d) Her pillows

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

9. The narrator describes K. as generally staying at the office until what time in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) 8
(b) 9
(c) 10
(d) 11

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

11. How many flats does the Usher say the student has been kicked out of in this building for sneaking into them to chase women in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
(a) 10
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 5

12. 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) There is a judge beating the Thrasher there
(c) There is no sign of the Thrasher or the guards
(d) The Thrasher and the guards are still there

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

14. 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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. K. points out to Fraülein Bürstner that Frau Grubach is dependent on him for what reason in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

2. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “blond with deep-set eyes”?

3. What is K.’s position at the bank where he works in the novel?

4. One of the guards being thrashed in “The Thrasher” says that he and his partner had prospects of being promoted to what position before getting into trouble?

5. The guards at K.’s house tell him that his jacket for the meeting with the supervisor must be what color in the beginning of “The Arrest”?

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