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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. K. decides when looking for the courtroom in “The First Hearing” to ask around for a carpenter named what?
2. What season is described in the opening of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
3. The narrator describes K. as generally staying at the office until what time in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
4. K. tells the guards who are to be thrashed in “The Thrasher,” “I didn’t complain, I just said what had happened in my apartment. And your behavior wasn’t exactly” what?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the character of Franz introduced in “The Arrest”? What is Franz’s assessment of K.?
2. How is K.’s behavior toward Fraülein Bürstner in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach” relative to his actions as a whole in the novel?
3. What does Willem say of his and Franz’s careers prior to K.’s accusations in “The Thrasher”?
4. What noise does K. hear as he prepares to exit the office at the bank in “The Thrasher”?
5. What do women represent to Josef K. in The Trial? How is this seen in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
6. Why does the Thrasher tell K. he shouldn’t believe everything the guards say in “The Thrasher”?
7. Describe the setting of The Trial. How does the author establish the setting in “The Arrest”?
8. What is K. doing in the opening of “The Arrest”? How does the narrator describe the reason for his arrest in this chapter?
9. How is the Examining Magistrate described in “The First Hearing”? What does he ask K.?
10. Who does K. find at the courtroom on the week after his first hearing in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze and discuss the character of Frau Grubach in the novel. How old is Frau Grubach? Why does she “depend on” K.? How much money do you think she’s borrowed from him? Why?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze and discuss the character of Josef K. as the protagonist of The Trial. What was K.’s life like prior to the arrival of the guards that appear in “The Arrest”? What is K.’s position within his society? What do you find to be K.’s “fatal flaw” in the story?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the characters of Franz and Willem in the novel. Why does K. attempt to save Franz and Willem from the Thrasher? How have the demeanors of these characters changed since their initial introduction in “The Arrest”? Why?
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