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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 narrator states in the beginning of “The First Hearing” that “K. had been informed by telephone that a short hearing in his affair would take place” when?
(a) The next Monday
(b) The next Thursday
(c) The next Sunday
(d) The next Tuesday

2. What season is described in the opening of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
(a) Winter
(b) Spring
(c) Autumn
(d) Summer

3. 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 a jazz bar
(c) To church
(d) To her lover’s house

4. What is the name of the second guard that tells K. that he’s under arrest in “The Arrest”?
(a) Willem
(b) Kaminer
(c) Hasterer
(d) Franz

5. What is Frau Grubach’s relationship to K.?
(a) She is his niece
(b) She is his mother
(c) She is his landlady
(d) She is his aunt

Short Answer Questions

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

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. 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”?

4. Which of the subordinate bank employees in “The Arrest” is described as “stiff, swinging his arms” and apathetic?

5. Where does K. see Kaminer on his way to the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

8. How are the people in the courtroom situated in “The First Hearing”? How is this arrangement symbolic?

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

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

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