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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. It is K.’s birthday in the opening of “The Arrest.” How old is K. turning?
(a) 30
(b) 31
(c) 32
(d) 28

5. 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) 4
(b) 5
(c) 2
(d) 3

6. 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

7. To whom does K. say in “The Thrasher,” “It’s about time you cleared out that lumber-room. We’re drowning in filth”?
(a) The Usher’s Wife
(b) The messengers
(c) The Usher.
(d) The Examining Magistrate

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

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

10. 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) Bertold
(b) Willem
(c) Franz
(d) Hasterer

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

12. 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”?
(a) Black
(b) Gray
(c) Blue
(d) White

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

14. 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) Stairs to the basement
(b) A chimney exit
(c) A lumber-room
(d) Stairs to the attic

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who moves into Fraülein Bürstner’s room with her in the course of the novel?

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

3. What does K. drink shots of from his wall cabinet while the guards watch him in the beginning of “The Arrest”?

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

5. What word from “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” means to break away from constituted authority?

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