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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. What word from “The Thrasher” means to secure or bring about by force?
(a) Impede
(b) Arbitrate
(c) Obstruct
(d) Compel
2. What word from “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” means to break away from constituted authority?
(a) Revolt
(b) Denial
(c) Constituency
(d) Apparition
3. 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) Frau Block
(c) Fräulein Bürstner
(d) Fraülein Montag
4. One of the guards being thrashed in “The Thrasher” tells K. that “it’s a tradition that” what “goes to the guards”?
(a) The coffers
(b) Breakfast
(c) The linen
(d) The landlady
5. What is the name of the student that the Usher’s Wife says has been pursuing her for some time in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
(a) Hasterer
(b) Franz
(c) Bertold
(d) Willem
Short Answer Questions
1. Of the proceedings against him, K. tells the Examining Magistrate, “[L]et us say I do recognize them, out of” what?
2. What countries comprised the Central Powers in the beginning of World War I?
3. 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?
4. What season is described in the opening of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
5. What word from “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” refers to a person engaged in a lawsuit?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the setting of The Trial. How does the author establish the setting in “The Arrest”?
2. How is the character of Franz introduced in “The Arrest”? What is Franz’s assessment of K.?
3. How is the character of Frau Grubach introduced in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
4. What information has K. learned about his coming hearing in the opening of “The First Hearing”? How did he gain this information?
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. How is K.’s behavior toward Fraülein Bürstner in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach” relative to his actions as a whole in the novel?
7. Where do Franz and Willem take K. in “The Arrest”? Why?
8. How are the people in the courtroom situated in “The First Hearing”? How is this arrangement symbolic?
9. What relationship to the legal system does Fraülein Bürstner say she has in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
10. What does K. find at the address for the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?
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