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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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

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

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

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

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 Examining Magistrate
(b) The Usher.
(c) The Usher’s Wife
(d) The messengers

8. 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 stick to beat them
(b) My pocketbook to pay them
(c) My steel-toed boots to kick them
(d) Some teacakes from my house

9. 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) 3
(b) 10
(c) 2
(d) 5

10. 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”?
(a) Fraülein Bürstner
(b) Frau Grubach
(c) Leni
(d) Elsa

11. When does Fraülein Bürstner say she’s starting work as a secretary at a lawyer’s office when speaking with K. in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) Next month
(b) Tomorrow
(c) Next week
(d) Next year

12. The next room to K.’s in “The Arrest” has been taken by “a typist, who went off to work very early and came back late.” What is this character’s name?
(a) Frau Block
(b) Fraülein Montag
(c) Fräulein Bürstner
(d) The Usher's Wife

13. At what time does K. plan to arrive at the courtroom on the day of his first hearing in “The First Hearing”?
(a) 6
(b) 8
(c) 9
(d) 7

14. What word from “The First Hearing” refers to a child’s apron or woman’s sleeveless garment worn over a dress?
(a) Pantaloon
(b) Pinafore
(c) Doublet
(d) Petticoat

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. 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”?

4. 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?

5. What is K.’s first name in the novel?

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