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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. On what day of the week does K. return to the courtroom in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
(a) Saturday
(b) Sunday
(c) Thursday
(d) Tuesday

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?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 5

3. What word from “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” refers to a person engaged in a lawsuit?
(a) Elucidate
(b) Candidate
(c) Litigant
(d) Liturgy

4. The narrator describes K. as generally staying at the office until what time in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) 10
(b) 9
(c) 11
(d) 8

5. What does K. drink shots of from his wall cabinet while the guards watch him in the beginning of “The Arrest”?
(a) Gin
(b) Vodka
(c) Whiskey
(d) Schnapps

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Frau Grubach’s nephew?

2. What word from “The Thrasher” means to secure or bring about by force?

3. In the ending of “The Thrasher,” K. waits to ensure he’s alone as he leaves his office, then goes home “weary and his mind” what?

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

5. To whom does the Usher’s Wife say the books in the courtroom belong to in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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