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

2. 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?
(a) Cowardly
(b) Desperate
(c) Incomprehensible
(d) Feeble-minded

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) 11
(d) 10

4. When Fraülein Bürstner looks around her room for any signs of disorder after returning home, she remarks that what “have been messed up” in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) Her photographs
(b) Her carpets
(c) Her dresses
(d) Her pillows

5. Where does K. see Kaminer on his way to the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?
(a) On a bus
(b) On a train
(c) At a café
(d) At the library

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the man from the state prosecution office that K. tells the supervisor is his friend in “The Arrest”?

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

3. When does the Examining Magistrate in the courtroom say K. should have been there when K. arrives in “The First Hearing”?

4. 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”?

5. On what day of the week does K. return to the courtroom in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the people in the courtroom situated in “The First Hearing”? How is this arrangement symbolic?

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

3. How is the atmosphere of the setting described in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

4. What excuse does Willem give K. for his previous behavior in “The Thrasher”?

5. Who is Fraülein Bürstner? How is her character described in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

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

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

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

9. What response does K. receive when he asks the three men in the lumber-room, “What are you doing here” in “The Thrasher”?

10. Describe the setting of The Trial. How does the author establish the setting in “The Arrest”?

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