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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. The guards tell K. that they are hired to stand guard of him in his apartment how many hours a day in “The Arrest”?
2. What is the name of the strange guard that opens K.’s door when he rings for his breakfast in the beginning of “The Arrest”?
3. 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?
4. What word from “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” means to break away from constituted authority?
5. The first book in the courtroom that K. looks at in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” is a book of what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is K. incapable of handling his trial in the same ways that he handles his work at the bank?
2. What is Josef K.’s central plight in “The Arrest”? How does he go about achieving his goal?
3. What information has K. learned about his coming hearing in the opening of “The First Hearing”? How did he gain this information?
4. Who does K. find at the courtroom on the week after his first hearing in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
5. Where do Franz and Willem take K. in “The Arrest”? Why?
6. How is the character of Frau Grubach introduced in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
7. What response does K. receive when he asks the three men in the lumber-room, “What are you doing here” in “The Thrasher”?
8. What does K. find at the address for the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?
9. Who is Fraülein Bürstner? How is her character described in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
10. What noise does K. hear as he prepares to exit the office at the bank in “The Thrasher”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the character of Leni in the novel. What draws K. to this character? What promises does Leni make to K. in “His Uncle – Leni”? How does K. respond when he sees Leni’s “physical defect”? Why?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the character of Titorelli in the novel. How does Titorelli regard K. when he arrives? What questions does he ask? What are K.’s impressions of the painter? What does Titorelli represent symbolically in the story?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss the characters of Uncle Karl and Erna in the narrative. What relationship did K. have with his uncle growing up? What does K.’s uncle learn from Erna regarding K.’s trial? How does Uncle Karl feel about K.’s trial?
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