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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. Which of the guards does the Thrasher say got fat from eating breakfasts at all his arrests in “The Thrasher”?
(a) Kullych
(b) Franz
(c) Willem
(d) Hasterer

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

3. 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

4. Which of the guards comes to K. and says, “If you can’t get both of us spared, then at least try to get him to let me go” in “The Thrasher”?
(a) Rabensteiner
(b) Kullych
(c) Franz
(d) Willem

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the proceedings against him, K. tells the Examining Magistrate, “[L]et us say I do recognize them, out of” what?

2. 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?

3. What word from “The Thrasher” refers to a dishonest, knavish person?

4. What is the name of the strange guard that opens K.’s door when he rings for his breakfast in the beginning of “The Arrest”?

5. What subordinate bank employee is described in “The Arrest” as having an “intolerable smile caused by a chronic muscular spasm”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the character of Willem described n “The Arrest”? How does he compare to Franz?

2. What does Franz say when he grovels to K. for help in “The Thrasher”?

3. How are the Examining Magistrate’s books described in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”? What happens to the Usher’s Wife in the chapter?

4. How is K.’s resistance to the system perceived in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

5. What information has K. learned about his coming hearing in the opening of “The First Hearing”? How did he gain this information?

6. How is the character of Franz introduced in “The Arrest”? What is Franz’s assessment of K.?

7. How is the weather described on the day K. goes to find the courthouse in “The First Hearing”? How is K.’s demeanor?

8. Why is K. incapable of handling his trial in the same ways that he handles his work at the bank?

9. Where do Franz and Willem take K. in “The Arrest”? Why?

10. Who does K. find at the courtroom on the week after his first hearing in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

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