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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. One of the guards being thrashed in “The Thrasher” says that he and his partner had prospects of being promoted to what position before getting into trouble?
3. How many messengers are said to still be “working in dispatch in the little circle from a lamp” at K.’s offices in the beginning of “The Thrasher” as he leaves work?
4. Who moves into Fraülein Bürstner’s room with her in the course of the novel?
5. How many flats does the Usher say the student has been kicked out of in this building for sneaking into them to chase women in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the character of Frau Grubach introduced in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
2. Where does the Usher lead K. in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”? How is this setting described?
3. What does Franz say when he grovels to K. for help in “The Thrasher”?
4. How is the weather described on the day K. goes to find the courthouse in “The First Hearing”? How is K.’s demeanor?
5. How are the people in the courtroom situated in “The First Hearing”? How is this arrangement symbolic?
6. How is K.’s resistance to the system perceived in “In the Empty Conference Hall – The Student – The Offices”?
7. What do women represent to Josef K. in The Trial? How is this seen in “A Conversation with Frau Grubach”?
8. What response does K. receive when he asks the three men in the lumber-room, “What are you doing here” in “The Thrasher”?
9. 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?
10. What does K. find at the address for the courtroom in “The First Hearing”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the characters of Bertold and the Usher’s Wife in the novel. What is Bertold a student of? How do the Usher and the Usher’s Wife describe his character? What power does Bertold hold within the courts?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Define “narrative point of view” in literature and identify the narrative style in The Trial. Is the narrative of the story related from a first, second or third person narrator? Is the story told in present or past tense? What effects do these choices have on the reader?
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