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

2. K. decides when looking for the courtroom in “The First Hearing” to ask around for a carpenter named what?
(a) Huld
(b) Titorelli
(c) Lanz.
(d) Willem

3. The supervisor who enters K.’s home after the guards in “The Arrest” tells him, “Think less about us and what is going to happen to you, think more about” what?
(a) Your employees
(b) Your family
(c) Yourself instead
(d) Your wife

4. What is written on the piece of paper “in clumsy, childish handwriting” by the stairwell to the loft in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
(a) Staircase to the Front Exit
(b) Staircase to the Court Offices
(c) Staircase to the Judge’s Secret Chambers
(d) Staircase to the Local Prison

5. What countries comprised the Central Powers in the beginning of World War I?
(a) The United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire
(b) Japan, Israel, and the Russian Empire
(c) France, Spain, and Germany
(d) Germany and Austria-Hungary

Short Answer Questions

1. The Usher tells K. as they pass through the waiting room of the Court Offices in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices,” “Most of the defendants are very” what?

2. K. considers the Deputy Manager’s invitation to his party to be what, in “The First Hearing”?

3. What does K. do before leaving Fraülein Bürstner’s room in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

4. What word from “The First Hearing” refers to a child’s apron or woman’s sleeveless garment worn over a dress?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What relationship to the legal system does Fraülein Bürstner say she has in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?

3. How is K.’s behavior toward Fraülein Bürstner in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach” relative to his actions as a whole in the novel?

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

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

6. What is K.’s reaction to the invitation given him by the Deputy Manager in “The First Hearing”?

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

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

9. What is K. doing in the opening of “The Arrest”? How does the narrator describe the reason for his arrest in this chapter?

10. How is the Examining Magistrate described in “The First Hearing”? What does he ask K.?

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