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

2. What does K. do before leaving Fraülein Bürstner’s room in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) He slaps her
(b) He shouts angrily at her
(c) He kisses her
(d) He spits at her

3. Where does Fraülein Bürstner say Frau Grubach’s nephew is sleeping in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) In the living room
(b) In the kitchen
(c) In the basement
(d) In the adjoining bedroom

4. The young woman in the Court Offices tells K. in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices,” “We, that is the staff here, decided that the information clerk, who is constantly dealing with the public and is their first contact with the court, ought to be given” what?
(a) Elegant clothes
(b) A nice haircut
(c) Good sleeping quarters
(d) A telephone

5. The guards tell K. that they are hired to stand guard of him in his apartment how many hours a day in “The Arrest”?
(a) 10
(b) 24
(c) 8
(d) 12

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” refers to a person engaged in a lawsuit?

2. How many messengers are said to still be “working in dispatch in the little circle from a lamp” at K.’s offices in the beginning of “The Thrasher” as he leaves work?

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

4. One of the guards being thrashed in “The Thrasher” says that he and his partner had prospects of being promoted to what position before getting into trouble?

5. The Deputy Manager invites K. to a party where on the same day as K.’s hearing in the beginning of “The First Hearing”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would you characterize K.’s behavior toward Fraülein Bürstner in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

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

3. How is the character of Frau Grubach introduced in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

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

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

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

7. Why does the Thrasher tell K. he shouldn’t believe everything the guards say in “The Thrasher”?

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

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

10. What do women represent to Josef K. in The Trial? How is this seen in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

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