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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 subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “blond with deep-set eyes”?
(a) Franz
(b) Willem
(c) Kullich
(d) Rabensteiner

2. Where does Frau Grubach say Fraülein Bürstner has gone in the evening when K. returns home in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) To the theatre
(b) To church
(c) To a jazz bar
(d) To her lover’s house

3. Speaking to the Usher’s Wife, K. tells her, “You could tell the examining magistrate, or anyone else who likes spreading important news, that none of the many tricks these gentlemen presumably have up their sleeves will ever persuade me to” what?
(a) Plead Innocent
(b) Confess
(c) Offer a bribe
(d) Run from the law

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) The Usher's Wife
(b) Fraülein Montag
(c) Fräulein Bürstner
(d) Frau Block

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many flats does the Usher say the student has been kicked out of in this building for sneaking into them to chase women in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

2. K. decides when looking for the courtroom in “The First Hearing” to ask around for a carpenter named what?

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

4. When he goes to demonstrate what happened this morning for Fraülein Bürstner in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach,” K. notes that what was hanging by the window in her room at the time of the inquiry?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Josef K.’s central plight in “The Arrest”? How does he go about achieving his goal?

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

6. 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?

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

8. Where does the Usher lead K. in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”? How is this setting described?

9. What does K. find at the address for the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?

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

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