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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. K. considers the Deputy Manager’s invitation to his party to be what, in “The First Hearing”?
(a) A false invitation
(b) An olive branch
(c) An ironic twist
(d) An inside joke

2. When K. first deals with the guards on the morning of his birthday in “The Arrest,” he presumes that this might be a joke played on him by his friends where?
(a) At the bank
(b) At the courthouse
(c) At the hospital
(d) At the bar

3. 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 carpets
(b) Her photographs
(c) Her pillows
(d) Her dresses

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

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

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 name, meaning the servants of an army, does K. call the Examining Magistrate and the others of the courtroom as he exits in “The First Hearing”?

3. It is K.’s birthday in the opening of “The Arrest.” How old is K. turning?

4. Who moves into Fraülein Bürstner’s room with her in the course of the novel?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Willem say of his and Franz’s careers prior to K.’s accusations in “The Thrasher”?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What noise does K. hear as he prepares to exit the office at the bank in “The Thrasher”?

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

9. 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?

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

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