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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What season is described in the opening of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) Spring
(b) Winter
(c) Summer
(d) Autumn
2. The narrator describes K. as generally staying at the office until what time in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) 8
(b) 11
(c) 9
(d) 10
3. 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?
(a) Clothing advertisements
(b) Poetry
(c) Pornography
(d) Household chores
4. 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) The Usher's Wife
(d) Fräulein Bürstner
5. 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 Usher.
(c) The messengers
(d) The Examining Magistrate
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of Frau Grubach’s nephew?
2. What does K. drink shots of from his wall cabinet while the guards watch him in the beginning of “The Arrest”?
3. The Thrasher tells K. when he discovers him getting ready to beat the guards, “You shouldn’t believe everything they say. Their fear of being beaten has made them a little” what?
4. When does the Examining Magistrate in the courtroom say K. should have been there when K. arrives in “The First Hearing”?
5. The second book that K. examines in the courtroom in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” is a novel titled what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the Thrasher tell K. he shouldn’t believe everything the guards say in “The Thrasher”?
2. How is the Examining Magistrate described in “The First Hearing”? What does he ask K.?
3. What response does K. receive when he asks the three men in the lumber-room, “What are you doing here” in “The Thrasher”?
4. Why is K. incapable of handling his trial in the same ways that he handles his work at the bank?
5. How is K.’s behavior toward Fraülein Bürstner in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach” relative to his actions as a whole in the novel?
6. What is K. doing in the opening of “The Arrest”? How does the narrator describe the reason for his arrest in this chapter?
7. How is K.’s resistance to the system perceived in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
8. What relationship to the legal system does Fraülein Bürstner say she has in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
9. What is K.’s reaction to the invitation given him by the Deputy Manager in “The First Hearing”?
10. Describe the setting of The Trial. How does the author establish the setting in “The Arrest”?
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