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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. What is Frau Grubach’s relationship to K.?
2. What word used in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices” refers to a complete change of form, structure, or substance?
3. When K. leaves Fräulein Bürstner’s room at the end of “A Conversation with Frau Grubach,” he thinks “for a while about the way he had behaved; he was” what?
4. Who moves into Fraülein Bürstner’s room with her in the course of the novel?
5. What public prosecutor does the Deputy Manager say is coming to his party in the beginning of “The First Hearing”?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Josef K.’s central plight in “The Arrest”? How does he go about achieving his goal?
2. How is the character of Frau Grubach introduced in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
3. Why is K. incapable of handling his trial in the same ways that he handles his work at the bank?
4. Why does the Thrasher tell K. he shouldn’t believe everything the guards say in “The Thrasher”?
5. What response does K. receive when he asks the three men in the lumber-room, “What are you doing here” in “The Thrasher”?
6. What information has K. learned about his coming hearing in the opening of “The First Hearing”? How did he gain this information?
7. What noise does K. hear as he prepares to exit the office at the bank in “The Thrasher”?
8. What does Franz say when he grovels to K. for help in “The Thrasher”?
9. How is K.’s behavior toward Fraülein Bürstner in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach” relative to his actions as a whole in the novel?
10. How is the atmosphere of the setting described in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the theme of gender roles and expectations in the novel. How does K. perceive the women around him? How are K.’s actions toward these female characters different from his actions toward male characters?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Discuss the realistic elements of the court system depicted in The Trial. In what ways is Kafka’s depiction realistic in relating the intricacies of the legal system of his time? How did the buildup toward World War I influence the way courts were held during the period in which the novel was written?
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