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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who moves into Fraülein Bürstner’s room with her in the course of the novel?
(a) Frau Grubach
(b) The Manufacturer
(c) Rabensteiner
(d) Fraülein Montag

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

3. On what street is K.’s courtroom said to be located in “The First Hearing”?
(a) Friedrichstrasse
(b) Juliusstrasse
(c) Ringstrasse
(d) Kopenhagener Strasse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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) Yesterday
(b) A month ago
(c) A year ago
(d) A week ago

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

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

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

15. K. points out to Fraülein Bürstner that Frau Grubach is dependent on him for what reason in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) He was a witness to a crime she committed
(b) She is desperate to marry his father
(c) She’s borrowed a large sum of money from him
(d) She is his only heir

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does K. see Kaminer on his way to the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?

2. Whose claim that his fiancée is waiting for him outside turns out to be a lie in “The Thrasher”?

3. What does K. say repeatedly to the woman and man who help him out of the Court Offices in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

4. Who does K. recall having said “that the court was attracted by guilt” in “The First Hearing”?

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

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